Hugh Magennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Magennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Magennis |
| SIGNATURE | MAGENNIS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translation Effects
Tearas Feollon
This contribution surveys the range of images of weeping in Old English literature, concentrating particularly on weeping due to suffering, grief and unhappiness, and on tears of compunction, but examining other types of weeping as well, including supplicatory and sympathetic weeping (these latter are found in prose but not in poetry). Taking account of contemporary theory, the study understands weeping to be a physical manifestation of distress,…
The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt and London, British Library, Cotton Julius E.vii
This article highlights the textual distinctiveness of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt in its manuscript context in British Library, Cotton Julius E.vii. The Cotton Julius version of the Life is distinctive in the sheer number of scribal errors it contains but also in the purposeful changes to the original translation evident in it. Consideration of scribal performance across the manuscript and comparison with texts of Saint Mary of E…
Synonyms and Lexical Substitutions in Texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Among the unusually high number of variants in the three surviving texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt are many instances in which a scribe has changed an inherited reading by substituting one word for another. Many of the substitutions are the result of error or unconscious scribal preference but this article demonstrates that all three texts of the Old English Life, which is of likely Anglian origin, also reveal a pattern of de…
Isidorean Perceptions of Order
Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (Medieval European Studies 17)." English Studies, 97(8), pp. 917–918
Ælfric's apostles
New Testament writings give a powerful sense of the humanness and fallibility of Christ's apostles, and a sense of their imperfection is also apparent in the non-canonical acts which report their missionary work and martyrdoms. Ælfric, drawing extensively on this biblical and extra-biblical material, adopts two distinct approaches in his treatment of the apostles, depending on whether he is writing hagiographically or exegetically. In neither app…
Not Angles but Anglicans? Reformation and Post-Reformation Perspectives on the Anglo-Saxon Church, Part 1
From the beginning, the early modern study of Anglo-Saxon England had a theological dimension, as opposing apologists sought to appropriate the teachings of the early English church. The Protestant enlisting of Ælfric is well known but Bede too was wielded in the religious controversies. The present article highlights the key theologically motivated figures who looked to early England in the Tudor period, examining in particular writings by John …
Not Angles but Anglicans? Reformation and Post-Reformation Perspectives on the Anglo-Saxon Church, Part II
Building on the examination of Tudor writers in Part I of this article (English Studies Vol. 96, issue 3, pp. 243–263), the present discussion traces the religious appropriation of the Anglo-Saxon church through the following two centuries, focusing on the writings of James Ussher, Elizabeth Elstob, Sharon Turner, John Lingard and others in the process. The assiduous scholarly identification of the early English church with Protestantism, and (co…
Two Ælfric Texts
Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 14)
In 1996 Paul E. Szarmach published the groundbreaking edited volume Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts (Albany: State University of New York Press). In doin
Crowd Control? Depictions of the Many in Anglo-Saxon Literature, with Particular Reference to the Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
This article argues for the distinctiveness of the presentation of crowds in the Old English version of the Legend of the Seven Sleepers . In traditional Old English poetry, crowds are mostly conspicuous by their absence, since the social groupings portrayed are typically those ofthe lord's retinue and the fellowship of the hall. In writings deriving from Latin traditions (in Anglo-Latin, Old English prose and strands of Old English poetry) such …
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg (4th edition) (Toronto Old English Series 21) R. D. FULK, ROBERT E. BJORK AND JOHN D. NILES (Eds.) Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008 cxc + 498
Listen Now All and Understand
Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts
(1995). Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts. English Studies: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-19
Images of laughter in old English poetry, with particular reference to the ‘hleahtor wera’ of The Seafarer
The Cup as Symbol and Metaphor in Old English Literature
Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers
(1985). Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers. English Studies: Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 285-295
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg (4th edition) (Toronto Old English Series 21) R. D. FULK, ROBERT E. BJORK AND JOHN D. NILES (Eds.) Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008 cxc + 498
Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts
(1995). Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts. English Studies: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-19
Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers
(1985). Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers. English Studies: Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 285-295
Synonyms and Lexical Substitutions in Texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Among the unusually high number of variants in the three surviving texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt are many instances in which a scribe has changed an inherited reading by substituting one word for another. Many of the substitutions are the result of error or unconscious scribal preference but this article demonstrates that all three texts of the Old English Life, which is of likely Anglian origin, also reveal a pattern of de…
Crowd Control? Depictions of the Many in Anglo-Saxon Literature, with Particular Reference to the Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
This article argues for the distinctiveness of the presentation of crowds in the Old English version of the Legend of the Seven Sleepers . In traditional Old English poetry, crowds are mostly conspicuous by their absence, since the social groupings portrayed are typically those ofthe lord's retinue and the fellowship of the hall. In writings deriving from Latin traditions (in Anglo-Latin, Old English prose and strands of Old English poetry) such …
Images of laughter in old English poetry, with particular reference to the ‘hleahtor wera’ of The Seafarer
The Cup as Symbol and Metaphor in Old English Literature
Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers
(1985). Style and method in the old English version of the legend of the seven sleepers. English Studies: Vol. 66, No. 4, pp. 285-295
Images of laughter in old English poetry, with particular reference to the ‘hleahtor wera’ of The Seafarer
Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts
(1995). Treatments of treachery and betrayal in Anglo‐Saxon texts. English Studies: Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 1-19
Listen Now All and Understand
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg (4th edition) (Toronto Old English Series 21) R. D. FULK, ROBERT E. BJORK AND JOHN D. NILES (Eds.) Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2008 cxc + 498
Crowd Control? Depictions of the Many in Anglo-Saxon Literature, with Particular Reference to the Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
This article argues for the distinctiveness of the presentation of crowds in the Old English version of the Legend of the Seven Sleepers . In traditional Old English poetry, crowds are mostly conspicuous by their absence, since the social groupings portrayed are typically those ofthe lord's retinue and the fellowship of the hall. In writings deriving from Latin traditions (in Anglo-Latin, Old English prose and strands of Old English poetry) such …
Ælfric's apostles
New Testament writings give a powerful sense of the humanness and fallibility of Christ's apostles, and a sense of their imperfection is also apparent in the non-canonical acts which report their missionary work and martyrdoms. Ælfric, drawing extensively on this biblical and extra-biblical material, adopts two distinct approaches in his treatment of the apostles, depending on whether he is writing hagiographically or exegetically. In neither app…
Not Angles but Anglicans? Reformation and Post-Reformation Perspectives on the Anglo-Saxon Church, Part 1
From the beginning, the early modern study of Anglo-Saxon England had a theological dimension, as opposing apologists sought to appropriate the teachings of the early English church. The Protestant enlisting of Ælfric is well known but Bede too was wielded in the religious controversies. The present article highlights the key theologically motivated figures who looked to early England in the Tudor period, examining in particular writings by John …
Not Angles but Anglicans? Reformation and Post-Reformation Perspectives on the Anglo-Saxon Church, Part II
Building on the examination of Tudor writers in Part I of this article (English Studies Vol. 96, issue 3, pp. 243–263), the present discussion traces the religious appropriation of the Anglo-Saxon church through the following two centuries, focusing on the writings of James Ussher, Elizabeth Elstob, Sharon Turner, John Lingard and others in the process. The assiduous scholarly identification of the early English church with Protestantism, and (co…
Two Ælfric Texts
Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 14)
In 1996 Paul E. Szarmach published the groundbreaking edited volume Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints’ Lives and Their Contexts (Albany: State University of New York Press). In doin
Isidorean Perceptions of Order
Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (Medieval European Studies 17)." English Studies, 97(8), pp. 917–918
Synonyms and Lexical Substitutions in Texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Among the unusually high number of variants in the three surviving texts of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt are many instances in which a scribe has changed an inherited reading by substituting one word for another. Many of the substitutions are the result of error or unconscious scribal preference but this article demonstrates that all three texts of the Old English Life, which is of likely Anglian origin, also reveal a pattern of de…
The Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt and London, British Library, Cotton Julius E.vii
This article highlights the textual distinctiveness of the Old English Life of Saint Mary of Egypt in its manuscript context in British Library, Cotton Julius E.vii. The Cotton Julius version of the Life is distinctive in the sheer number of scribal errors it contains but also in the purposeful changes to the original translation evident in it. Consideration of scribal performance across the manuscript and comparison with texts of Saint Mary of E…
Tearas Feollon
This contribution surveys the range of images of weeping in Old English literature, concentrating particularly on weeping due to suffering, grief and unhappiness, and on tears of compunction, but examining other types of weeping as well, including supplicatory and sympathetic weeping (these latter are found in prose but not in poetry). Taking account of contemporary theory, the study understands weeping to be a physical manifestation of distress,…
Translation Effects
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