David W Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6308638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1665-8371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury
This article demonstrates that some 180 of the 2,400 text glosses in the ‘Leiden Glossary’ derive from an epitome of the Etymologiae. A reconstruction of this lost source shows that it consisted of abbreviated entries from all twenty of Isidore's books, with selected books heavily glossed in Old English. Mirroring the encyclopedic scope of the Etymologiae , this seventh-century epitome was extensively excerpted by glossary-compilers and gave thou…
The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar
A poem by a French monk named Herbert petitions Wulfgar Abbot of Abingdon for a gift of warm clothing. The poem, a mock epic employing alliteration and hermeneutic vocabulary, presents the seasons as warring deities. Using similar technique in the final eight lines of the poem, Wulfgar denies Herbert with a humourous response. This article contains an edition, translation, and analysis of the poem, along with brief biographies of the two authors.…
An Unrecorded Old English Compound
An Unrecorded Old English Compound." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 19(2), pp. 3–4
The earliest texts with English and French
Modern scholars can sometimes reconstruct the methods of medieval glossary-makers by tracking individual glosses along the path from the textual source to the final destination in the glossarial list. Here I wish to pursue a trail of clues through two early-eleventh-century manuscripts of the Excerptiones de Prisciano (‘Excerpts of Priscian’), a Latin grammatical treatise which has been identified as the source for Ælfric's bilingual Grammar . Vi…
The Latin syllabus in Anglo-Saxon monastic schools
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The Latin syllabus in Anglo-Saxon monastic schools
The earliest texts with English and French
Modern scholars can sometimes reconstruct the methods of medieval glossary-makers by tracking individual glosses along the path from the textual source to the final destination in the glossarial list. Here I wish to pursue a trail of clues through two early-eleventh-century manuscripts of the Excerptiones de Prisciano (‘Excerpts of Priscian’), a Latin grammatical treatise which has been identified as the source for Ælfric's bilingual Grammar . Vi…
An Unrecorded Old English Compound
An Unrecorded Old English Compound." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 19(2), pp. 3–4
The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar
A poem by a French monk named Herbert petitions Wulfgar Abbot of Abingdon for a gift of warm clothing. The poem, a mock epic employing alliteration and hermeneutic vocabulary, presents the seasons as warring deities. Using similar technique in the final eight lines of the poem, Wulfgar denies Herbert with a humourous response. This article contains an edition, translation, and analysis of the poem, along with brief biographies of the two authors.…
Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury
This article demonstrates that some 180 of the 2,400 text glosses in the ‘Leiden Glossary’ derive from an epitome of the Etymologiae. A reconstruction of this lost source shows that it consisted of abbreviated entries from all twenty of Isidore's books, with selected books heavily glossed in Old English. Mirroring the encyclopedic scope of the Etymologiae , this seventh-century epitome was extensively excerpted by glossary-compilers and gave thou…
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