Peter J Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 5512520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Semi-Saxon and the Presentation of Early English in Print
Knowing when Middle English began and what to call the period that began when Old English finished are problems that have beset historians of English for centuries. One of the attendant problems was that the name ‘Middle English’ was not used before 1830, when it was introduced under German influence, so there was a gap in nomenclature for the English that came after ‘Anglo-Saxon’ and before ‘English’. To some extent, this gap was filled by the t…
Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
Elizabeth Elstob, known as “the Saxon nymph”, is much celebrated for her publications on Old English, Ælfric’s homily on St Gregory (1709), for example. Her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715) was the first AngloSaxon grammar in English. It was also notable for introducing a new printing fount for Anglo-Saxon, one that reproduced almost every letter in an authentic imitation of that found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first…
A Conspectus of Letters to and From Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641)
Sir Henry Spelman, a founding member of the Society of Antiquaries of London who may be considered the doyen of English antiquaries, made a substantial contribution through his many publications, particularly his Glossarium of 1626, his Concilia of 1639 and, together with his son John, the Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum of 1640. He pioneered the methodical study of historical documents, compiling a guide to the abbreviations and contractions found i…
A Psalter from Maillezais at Maynooth
A Psalter from the third quarter of the fifteenth century is preserved in the collections of St Patrick’s College now housed in the Russell Library at Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The psalter was evidently made in a Benedictine monastery in south-west France, probably Poitou. One particular saint occurs in both the calendar and the litany. St Rigomer, though little known elsewhere, was specially venerated at Maillezais in the marshes of bas-Po…
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar
The first scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon had to learn it by direct contact with original sources. Work on a dictionary preceded that on a grammar, notably through the efforts of John Joscelyn, Archbishop Parker's Latin Secretary. Like Parker, Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641) found that many of his sources for early English history were in Anglo-Saxon. Consequently he encouraged the study of Old English by establishing a Lectureship in Anglo-Sa…
From Politics to Practicalities
Beginning in 1566 under the influence of Archbishop Parker, Anglo-Saxon was printed with special sorts to give enhanced authenticity to the material so published, which was used first to bolster the establishment of the Church and then to justify arguments relating to secular constitutional politics. The method of assembling a complete set of types for Anglo-Saxon was to add special sorts to an existing roman fount; the various examples of this p…
Junius, his Printers and his Types
The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care
When Old English studies were in their infancy in the seventeenth century, scholars such as Franciscus junius (1591–1677) had very little to study in print. With no grammar and no dictionary (until Somner's in 1659) they had to teach themselves the language from original sources. Junius, whose interest in Germanic studies became active in the early 1650s, was so proficient, not only at Old English, but also at the cognate languages that he became…
The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
(1991). The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale. English Studies: Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 501-512
The cloud in the interpretation of The Old English Exodus
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
The cloud in the interpretation of The Old English Exodus
The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
(1991). The presentation of marriage and love in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale. English Studies: Vol. 72, No. 6, pp. 501-512
The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care
When Old English studies were in their infancy in the seventeenth century, scholars such as Franciscus junius (1591–1677) had very little to study in print. With no grammar and no dictionary (until Somner's in 1659) they had to teach themselves the language from original sources. Junius, whose interest in Germanic studies became active in the early 1650s, was so proficient, not only at Old English, but also at the cognate languages that he became…
Junius, his Printers and his Types
From Politics to Practicalities
Beginning in 1566 under the influence of Archbishop Parker, Anglo-Saxon was printed with special sorts to give enhanced authenticity to the material so published, which was used first to bolster the establishment of the Church and then to justify arguments relating to secular constitutional politics. The method of assembling a complete set of types for Anglo-Saxon was to add special sorts to an existing roman fount; the various examples of this p…
The earliest modern Anglo-Saxon grammar
The first scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon had to learn it by direct contact with original sources. Work on a dictionary preceded that on a grammar, notably through the efforts of John Joscelyn, Archbishop Parker's Latin Secretary. Like Parker, Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641) found that many of his sources for early English history were in Anglo-Saxon. Consequently he encouraged the study of Old English by establishing a Lectureship in Anglo-Sa…
A Psalter from Maillezais at Maynooth
A Psalter from the third quarter of the fifteenth century is preserved in the collections of St Patrick’s College now housed in the Russell Library at Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The psalter was evidently made in a Benedictine monastery in south-west France, probably Poitou. One particular saint occurs in both the calendar and the litany. St Rigomer, though little known elsewhere, was specially venerated at Maillezais in the marshes of bas-Po…
William Camden, Seventeenth-Century Atlases of the British Isles and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
The sixth edition of Camden’s Britannia was published in 1607 with over fifty county maps printed from engraved plates. It was a pioneering work. In 1611, John Speed published his Theatre of The Empire of Great Britaine, again with over fifty county maps, many of them engraved by Jodocus Hondius from Amsterdam, and with an abridged version of Camden’s text. These books established a model that was followed later in Amsterdam itself in the great a…
A Conspectus of Letters to and From Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4–1641)
Sir Henry Spelman, a founding member of the Society of Antiquaries of London who may be considered the doyen of English antiquaries, made a substantial contribution through his many publications, particularly his Glossarium of 1626, his Concilia of 1639 and, together with his son John, the Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum of 1640. He pioneered the methodical study of historical documents, compiling a guide to the abbreviations and contractions found i…
Elizabeth Elstob and the Printing of Anglo-Saxon
Elizabeth Elstob, known as “the Saxon nymph”, is much celebrated for her publications on Old English, Ælfric’s homily on St Gregory (1709), for example. Her Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715) was the first AngloSaxon grammar in English. It was also notable for introducing a new printing fount for Anglo-Saxon, one that reproduced almost every letter in an authentic imitation of that found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, the first…
Semi-Saxon and the Presentation of Early English in Print
Knowing when Middle English began and what to call the period that began when Old English finished are problems that have beset historians of English for centuries. One of the attendant problems was that the name ‘Middle English’ was not used before 1830, when it was introduced under German influence, so there was a gap in nomenclature for the English that came after ‘Anglo-Saxon’ and before ‘English’. To some extent, this gap was filled by the t…
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