Malcolm Godden
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Godden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Godden |
| SIGNATURE | GODDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the literature of the period 600 to 1066 in the context of how Anglo-Saxon society functioned. New chapters cover topics including preaching and teaching, B…
Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred
The Old English Life of St Neot has been generally dated to the twelfth century and dismissed as a late and derivative work. The article argues that it was written much earlier, in the first few decades of the eleventh century, and is both a significant example of late Old English hagiographic literature and an important witness to early legends about King Alfred and his posthumous reputation
The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae, Vol. 1: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae, Vol. 2: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
The Old English language
Most Old English poetry and a considerable amount of Old English prose is now accessible through Modern English translations. But in order to understand fully and appreciate the literature of the Anglo- Saxon period - its style, verse structure and content - it is necessary to read the texts in their original language. The following chapter is intended as an introduction to Old English, with emphasis on those characteristics and developments that…
Perceptions of transience
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep.Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England
Journal Article King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo‐Saxon England Get access Malcolm Godden Malcolm Godden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 472, June 2002, Pages 596–604, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.472.596 Published: 01 June 2002
The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: Rewriting the sack of Rome
On 24 August 410 the Goths under their king Alaric entered the city of Rome and spent three days pillaging it. They then moved south towards Sicily, possibly in the hope of escaping to Africa, but Alaric died and the Goths retreated back through Italy to Gaul, from where they were driven into Spain by Roman forces in 414. The sack of Rome was by all accounts of little material significance in the long and complex history of Roman engagement with …
From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley
Did Grendel's mother sit on Beowulf?, Fred C. Robinson An Alfredian legacy? - on the fortunes and fate of some items of Boethian vocabulary in Old English, Janet Bately some reflections on the metre of Christ III, Jane Roberts a grammarian's Greek-Latin glossary in Anglo-Saxon England, Helmut Gneuss poetic words in Late-Old-English prose, Roberta Frank establishing the evidence, Terry Hoad apocalypse and invasion in Late-Anglo-Saxon England, Malc…
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
Money, power and morality in late Anglo-Saxon England
England was a wealthy country at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period, as P. H. Sawyer has reminded us; wealthy enough to tempt the Vikings to repeated raids and to pay them enormous sums in tribute while still maintaining a prosperous economy. It was also, increasingly, a country whose wealth was expressed in terms of money rather than other kinds of assets. There was an enormous volume of silver coinage in circulation, continually renewed and repl…
Elfric and Anglo-Saxon Kingship
Elfric and Anglo-Saxon Kingship M. R. GODDEN M. R. GODDEN Exeter CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 405, October 1987, Pages 911–915, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.405.911 Published: 01 October 1987
Ælfric's changing vocabulary
Old English composite homilies from Winchester
Many of the homilies preserved in manuscripts of Old English are composite; that is, they are made up largely of passages drawn with little change from other Old English writings (usually homilies) and not freshly composed or translated from Latin. Most of them exist in only one copy, compared with the several surviving copies of most original homilies, and they were probably not given wide circulation. But such homilies can tell us a great deal …
An Old English penitential motif
Recent work on the two major Old English homilists, Ælfric and Wulfstan, has not been lacking, with new editions of their homilies and continued study of their sources and style. The anonymous homilies have received rather less attention, and this has meant that one important Old English homiletic type, the penitential homily, has been largely neglected. These ‘exhortations to repentance, illustrated by devotional commonplaces’ as the penitential…
The development of Aelfric's second series of Catholic Homilies
Money, power and morality in late Anglo-Saxon England
England was a wealthy country at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period, as P. H. Sawyer has reminded us; wealthy enough to tempt the Vikings to repeated raids and to pay them enormous sums in tribute while still maintaining a prosperous economy. It was also, increasingly, a country whose wealth was expressed in terms of money rather than other kinds of assets. There was an enormous volume of silver coinage in circulation, continually renewed and repl…
King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England
Journal Article King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo‐Saxon England Get access Malcolm Godden Malcolm Godden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 472, June 2002, Pages 596–604, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.472.596 Published: 01 June 2002
The development of Aelfric's second series of Catholic Homilies
Ælfric's changing vocabulary
An Old English penitential motif
Recent work on the two major Old English homilists, Ælfric and Wulfstan, has not been lacking, with new editions of their homilies and continued study of their sources and style. The anonymous homilies have received rather less attention, and this has meant that one important Old English homiletic type, the penitential homily, has been largely neglected. These ‘exhortations to repentance, illustrated by devotional commonplaces’ as the penitential…
An Old English penitential motif
Recent work on the two major Old English homilists, Ælfric and Wulfstan, has not been lacking, with new editions of their homilies and continued study of their sources and style. The anonymous homilies have received rather less attention, and this has meant that one important Old English homiletic type, the penitential homily, has been largely neglected. These ‘exhortations to repentance, illustrated by devotional commonplaces’ as the penitential…
The development of Aelfric's second series of Catholic Homilies
Old English composite homilies from Winchester
Many of the homilies preserved in manuscripts of Old English are composite; that is, they are made up largely of passages drawn with little change from other Old English writings (usually homilies) and not freshly composed or translated from Latin. Most of them exist in only one copy, compared with the several surviving copies of most original homilies, and they were probably not given wide circulation. But such homilies can tell us a great deal …
Ælfric's changing vocabulary
Elfric and Anglo-Saxon Kingship
Elfric and Anglo-Saxon Kingship M. R. GODDEN M. R. GODDEN Exeter CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue 405, October 1987, Pages 911–915, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.405.911 Published: 01 October 1987
Money, power and morality in late Anglo-Saxon England
England was a wealthy country at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period, as P. H. Sawyer has reminded us; wealthy enough to tempt the Vikings to repeated raids and to pay them enormous sums in tribute while still maintaining a prosperous economy. It was also, increasingly, a country whose wealth was expressed in terms of money rather than other kinds of assets. There was an enormous volume of silver coinage in circulation, continually renewed and repl…
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: Studies Presented to E. G. Stanley
Did Grendel's mother sit on Beowulf?, Fred C. Robinson An Alfredian legacy? - on the fortunes and fate of some items of Boethian vocabulary in Old English, Janet Bately some reflections on the metre of Christ III, Jane Roberts a grammarian's Greek-Latin glossary in Anglo-Saxon England, Helmut Gneuss poetic words in Late-Old-English prose, Roberta Frank establishing the evidence, Terry Hoad apocalypse and invasion in Late-Anglo-Saxon England, Malc…
King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England
Journal Article King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo‐Saxon England Get access Malcolm Godden Malcolm Godden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 472, June 2002, Pages 596–604, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.472.596 Published: 01 June 2002
The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: Rewriting the sack of Rome
On 24 August 410 the Goths under their king Alaric entered the city of Rome and spent three days pillaging it. They then moved south towards Sicily, possibly in the hope of escaping to Africa, but Alaric died and the Goths retreated back through Italy to Gaul, from where they were driven into Spain by Roman forces in 414. The sack of Rome was by all accounts of little material significance in the long and complex history of Roman engagement with …
The Old English language
Most Old English poetry and a considerable amount of Old English prose is now accessible through Modern English translations. But in order to understand fully and appreciate the literature of the Anglo- Saxon period - its style, verse structure and content - it is necessary to read the texts in their original language. The following chapter is intended as an introduction to Old English, with emphasis on those characteristics and developments that…
Perceptions of transience
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep.Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae, Vol. 1: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
The Old English Boethius: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae, Vol. 2: An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius's De Consolatione Philosophiae
The Old English Life of St Neot and the legends of King Alfred
The Old English Life of St Neot has been generally dated to the twelfth century and dismissed as a late and derivative work. The article argues that it was written much earlier, in the first few decades of the eleventh century, and is both a significant example of late Old English hagiographic literature and an important witness to early legends about King Alfred and his posthumous reputation
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
This Companion has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and to provide a clear and accessible introduction for those encountering Old English literature for the first time. Including seventeen essays by distinguished scholars, this new edition provides a discussion of the literature of the period 600 to 1066 in the context of how Anglo-Saxon society functioned. New chapters cover topics including preaching and teaching, B…
Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
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