Charlemagne and Northumbria : the influence of Francia on Northumbrian politics in the later eighth and early ninth centuries.

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08071 Abstracts Collection -- Scheduling

From 10.02. to 15.02., the Dagstuhl Seminar 08071 ``Scheduling\u27\u27 was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available

Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne\u27s Aachen

Statements in Stone is an intersectional and preliminary study of the architecture and Social aspects of the palatine complex of Aachen Germany during the reign of Charlemagne approximately spanning from the 790s to 814CE. The interplay between built space and its Social uses inform the larger Social understandings and interpretations of power and authority. Court poetry written by contemporaries and courtiers of Charlemagne allow readers to glimpse the court as it moved through and interacted with the built environment. Architectural precedents inform the connotations associated with the spaces of Aachen, while spatial theory will provide a framework for understanding the matter in which a society creates meaning out of Social rituals and the importance of space in this process of this creation

Alcuin's Disputatio de rhetorica: A critical edition with studies of aspects of the text, the stemma codicum, the didactic diagrams and a reinterpretation of sources for the problem of the duality of the dialogue

Alcuin’s dialogue De rhetoricaenjoyed early success in Middle Ages and had a plethora of early copies in the ninth century. Diagrams concerning rhetoric were added to some of the earliest manuscripts and accompanied the dialogue through the ninth and tenth centuries, but were disregarded by modern editions of the work. The dialogue also has an uncommon combination of classical rhetorical precepts and explanation of the four cardinal virtues; these precepts and virtues had never been merged in such a way. In order to deal with the issues mentioned above, this thesis is divided into two main parts. The first deals mainly with Alcuin’s dialogue and its content. In this part, the controversial date of composition is taken into consideration, as well as the reception of the dialogue by modern scholars and their interpretation of how rhetorical precepts and cardinal virtues associate with each other in the dialogue. I give my own view of this issue and try to use Alcuin’s known sources to justify and undertand the presence of a discussion about virtues on a dialogue about rhetoric. Next I analyse the diagrams which were transmitted in some of the oldest manuscripts and consider their relation to the content of Alcuin’s text. I also collate the manuscripts and drew a stemma codicum of the manuscripts containing the diagrams. In the second part, I analyse previous editions of Alcuin’s work. A description of the readings found in the manuscripts, including two never used before, leads to the first stemma codicum of the dialogue. After this, a physical description of the manuscripts and justifications of each of the different readings adopted in this edition is offered before the edition itself

The Old English elegies :

The enormous bibliography surrounding the Old English elegies breaks down primarily into studies of structure, cultural context, and genre. This study is concerned first with attempting to define as precisely as possible the limits of the utterances of speakers in the poems. Then an attempt is made to summarize the major currents of criticism which investigate the cultural milieu of Old English literature. Finally, there is a discussion of genre. Starting with a consideration of all the poems which are generally considered to be elegies--The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, Resignation, The Riming Poem, Wulf and Eadwacer, Deor, and The Ruin--a case is made for including all but the last three as elegies

Psychodynamics of language

This work examines the origins of our existing principles of communication to observe patterns of language and their causes. The study surveys twenty-five hundred-years of Western language and writing and its evolution through cultural interaction. The nature of this evolution is the topic of this thesis. There are four periods of time that are studied for their influence on language and writing: the Late Classical Period, the Early and Late Medieval Period, the Early Renaissance, and the Twentieth Century. The study revealed that language and writing have always had a significant metacognitive function within Western culture. Language and writing have been elemental in the progressive evolution of humankind because they are the most universal means of communication. There have been two great shifts in the use of language and writing and we are on the threshold of a third

The economic history of Anglian Deira, 700-870

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Vienna, Ostereichische Nationslbiblioothek 1761: Biblical Glossaries with OHG Glosses, along with many minor texts: "De inuentione linguarum;' Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, extracts from Isidore, etc.

486. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 1761 Biblical Glossaries with OHG Glosses, along with many minor texts: "De inuentione linguarum;' Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet, extracts from Isidore, etc. [Ker App. 38; Gneuss -] HISTORY: The manuscript, containing a "Leiden family" glossary augmented with further biblical glossaries and other material, dates from the 11c (second quarter or second third, according to Hoffmann 1986: 223; second or third quarter, according to Bischoff 1989: 134; Bischoff 1966-8la: 2.195, n. 12 and 1966-8lb: 2.258 dated it 10/llc). The manuscript includes over 300 OHG context glosses (for details see Bergmann and Stricker 2005: 4.1785-86, no. 941; Kobler 2005: 734) and a single OE context gloss (see below under "Contents;' item l.d). Hoffmann identifies one principal scribe, who was responsible for ff. 123v-'24l'r [= 243r] and probably for much of the rest of the manuscript. Bischoff (ed. Mentzel-Reuters 1997: Fiche 61, 5.41, notes dated Oct. 1937) suggests the manuscript was written in a monastery in southern Bavaria, probably Tegernsee, but he later tentatively assigned it to Lorsch (1989: 134); Franz Unterkircher, as reported by Derolez 1954: 300 n. 58, and Glauche 1998: 167, suggested western Germany, and Hoffmann has affirmed that the main scribe wrote a Lorsch script. According to Steinmeyer (StS 4.643), the binding of the manuscript suggests a Mondsee provenance. Nothing more certain is known of its history until it came to the Imperial Library in Vienna as part of the private collection of Sebastian Tengnagel, prefect from 1608-1636, student and successor of the first official librarian, the Dutch scholar Hugo Blotius (appointed prefect by Maximilian II in 1575, d. 1608). Tengnagel's ex-libris is written in the upper margin off. 1r: 'ex libris Sebastiani Tengnagel I<uris> V<triusque> D<octoris> | et caes<arei> Bibliothec<arii>'. The earlier shelfmark 'Theologicus DCCCLXIII' entered on the spine and inside front cover is that assigned in the unpublished catalogue of Johann Benedikt Gentilotti von Engelsbrunn, prefect from 1705-1723. (A lightly pencilled entry in the bottom left corner of f. 243v gives the shelfmark in arabic numerals: '863' [3 corr. from 2?]). In the catalogue of Michael Denis (1793-1802: 1/1.139-51), the manuscript is no. LXIV of the "Codices Hermeneutici:' A transcript of the OHG glosses by Jacob Grimm was printed by Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1826: 56-59). On the history of the Imperial Library and on the librarians and scholars mentioned above, see Stummvoll 1968. For descriptions of the manuscript see Tabulae Codicum 1.287-82; Bergmann and Stricker 2005: 4.1784-87; Kobler 2005: 733-35.&nbsp