Interfaces Between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpio

The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between historical linguistics and medieval cultural studies. They fall into two groups. One examines the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture, investigating language-contact between Old English and Latin, the extent of Latinity in early medieval Britain, Anglo-Saxons’ attitudes to Classical culture, and relationships between Anglo-Saxon and Continental Christian thought. Another group uses historical linguistics as a method in the wider cultural study of medieval England, examining syntactic change, dialect, translation and semantics to give us access to politeness, demography, and cultural constructions of colour, thought and time. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon culture and Middle English language.

Contributors are Olga Timofeeva, Alaric Hall, Seppo Heikkinen, Jesse Keskiaho, John Blair, Kathryn A. Lowe, Antonette DiPaolo Healey, Lilla Kopár, C. P. Biggam, Ágnes Kiricsi, Alexandra Fodor and Mari Pakkala-Weckström.

Alaric Hall, Ph.D. (2004) in English Language, University of Glasgow, is a lecturer in medieval English literature at the University of Leeds. He has written extensively on medieval Insular and Scandinavian language and culture.
Olga Timofeeva, candidate of sciences in philology (2005), St Petersburg State University, Russia, has just submitted her Ph.D. dissertation on Latin influence on Old English syntax to the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a researcher at the Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English and a part-time instructor at the Department of English, University of Helsinki. Her scholarly interests include medieval translation and language contact.
Ágnes Kiricsi, Ph.D. (2006) in Medieval English Literature, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, is a lecturer at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. Her main field of expertise is the concept of the mind in Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England.
Bethany Fox, B.A. Cantab. (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 2003), B.Sc. Open University (Geosciences, 2008), is a Ph.D. student in Geology at the University of Otago and author of 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland' (The Heroic Age, 10).