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Comment on Obedience by kljolly

kljolly — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:38:41 +0000

Thanks for the encouraging words as I slog through Aldred’s glosses to the collectar. Occasionally I find a treasure–of course, that is measured in relation to the boring stuff, so I get quite excited over just a bit of punctuation, a spelling anomaly, or an empty “vel.”

Comment on Obedience by Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:10:16 +0000

The exciting bits are only so because they cling onto the coattails of the unexciting! If you’ll forgive a touch of self-aggrandisement and if it’s of any help to your research, I have a slightly longer review of Leslie’s excellent book in Hortulus journal. Thanks for flagging up Stealing Obedience as well. I need to get my hands on that. Looking forward to more of your work!

Comment on Obedience by kljolly

kljolly — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:58:52 +0000

Thanks, Michael. Glad to know someone is reading!
What about the unexciting bits of early medieval religion? That is what I am working on right now with Aldred’s glosses.

Comment on Obedience by Michael

Michael — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:16:17 +0000

Hi Karen, I’ve been following your work for some time due to my research interests in Anglo-Saxon demons, magic, and all the exciting bits of early medieval religion. I’m extremely pleased to discover that you also have a blog! Let this also be a big personal thank you for helping to fire up my own academic interest in the supernatural milieu of the Anglo-Saxons.

Comment on faith, hope, and love by Thought and Belief | Revealing Words

Thought and Belief | Revealing Words — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:11:54 +0000

[…] Aldred plays with mentium and sensus, looking unsuccessfully for variations on ðoht. As noted in my earlier post on faith, hope, and love, he uses lufu (love) to gloss fides and then adds gileaf (belief). So as Lockett posits, feeling […]

Comment on faith, hope, and love by Obedience | Revealing Words

Obedience | Revealing Words — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:28:35 +0000

[…] am discovering some insights on Aldred in general and his gloss of faith, hope, and love (previous post) while reading Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe’s Stealing Obedience: Narratives of […]

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Comment on faith, hope, and love by kljolly

kljolly — Fri, 31 May 2013 05:34:55 +0000

I did check the Greek, just in case 1 Cor. 13:13 switched from agape to phileo in that verse, but no luck. It would have been fun to suggest Aldred had access to Greek or commentaries, but that is highly unlikely in any case.

Comment on faith, hope, and love by Derek Olsen

Derek Olsen — Fri, 31 May 2013 04:14:56 +0000

I’m suddenly reminded of a discussion of three kinds of love found in a Middle English devotional tract for use at Mass occurring at the peace/kissing of the paxbrede. It’s 13th c. so quite a bit later, but I’ll have to look at it again to see what jogged my memory…

Comment on faith, hope, and love by kljolly

kljolly — Thu, 30 May 2013 06:06:44 +0000

The vassal-lord fidelity oaths that come to mind are 12th century, so I will need to think of an Anglo-Saxon context. Perhaps Dream of the Rood or some of the heroic poems make use of lufu as faithful or loyal love. I should probably search the DOE corpus.