I went this past week to pick up Leslie Lockett's _Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions_) published 2011, U of Toronto Press.  Her first chapter is my dissertation/writing so far, minus a consideration of homilies.  Seriously.  She says everything I was going to say about the state of the field, about the biases in ( Read more... )

Transcription is from the DOE  Corpus (without permission, so don't using this for anything), which in turn is from Thorpe 1840: Thorpe, 1840 II, 394-400; Thorpe, B.  Ancient Laws and Institutes of England , 2 vols., folio ed. in 1 vol., Great Britain Public Records Commission 28 (London).

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ámánsung see ámánsumung

ámánsumian [] wv/t2 to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw; [á- out; mǽn = gemǽne, common; sumian = samnian congregate]

ámánsumod [] adj excommunicated

ámánsumung [] f (-e/-a) excommunication, curse; Hermon

ámánsumnung [] f (-e/-a) excommunication, curse; Hermon

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Plan: get out of house and get through these middle english debate poems today, with no distractions.

Reality: eating crow about the time I played pile-on on a medieval list about middle english being something my daughter could read with a gloss and thus not worth the whining from undergrads (and grads!). While I still maintain this is true for ( Read more... )

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alright, so Augustine in his sermon 362 is commenting on Paul's bit in Corinthians about the distinction between flesh and body.

Ne ad talia nos resurrecturos crederemus, qualia secundum primum hominem corruptibiliter agebamus, subjecit statim: Hoc autem dico, fratres, quia caro et sanguis regnum Dei haereditate possidere non possunt. Atque ( Read more... )

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ut cor eorum dissolveretur et sensus transmutaretur

sed nec cor eius dissolutum est nec sensus anime transmutatis