SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature

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Vol. 30 No. 1 (2025)
Published July 17, 2025

The Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) publishes scholarly articles, notes, and book reviews in English that contribute to the advancement of Medieval English Studies. Once we have received your contribution, you may expect a decision from the referees in about eight weeks’ time.

SELIM also accepts proposals for thematic issues ("special issues") guest-edited by a specialist in the proposed topic. A thematic issue needs to include between a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 9 original articles from invited scholars. 

Articles

Mark Griffith
1-71
Ælfric’s Preface to Genesis: Commentary with Text, Translation, Sources and Analogues and Parallel Passages in Ælfric’s Works
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.1-71
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Elliot Vale
73-96
Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.73-96
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Rían Boyle
97-123
A Thought Too Far: A Case for a Corpus Approach to Bad Knowledge in Old English Literature
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.97-123
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Rodrigo Pérez Lorido
125-60
The Shift from Affix to Clitic in the History of the English Genitive: Evidence from John of Trevisa’s Polychronicon
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.125-60
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Sarah Lancaster
161-79
Acts of Consumption: Spiritual and Material Food in The Towneley Plays
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.161-79
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Notes

Rafael J. Pascual
181-88
On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.181-88
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Irene Diego Rodríguez
189-202
Pseudo-Hippocratic Zodiacal Lunaries in the Hunterian Collection: A Comparative Study of the Manuscript Context of Glasgow University Library Hunter MS 461 and Hunter MS 513
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.189-202
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Reviews

Lucas Gahrmann
203-4
Bjork, Robert E. 2024. Old English Studies and its Scandinavian Practitioners: Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733 to 2023. Anglo-Saxon Studies 50. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. Pp. xv + 336. ISBN 9781843847274.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.203-4
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James Paz
205-8
Coker, Matthew D. 2023. Supernatural Speakers in Old English Verse. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. 154. ISBN 9781641894128.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.205-8
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Kazutomo Karasawa
209-16
Griffith, Mark. 2024. The Battle of Maldon: A New Critical Edition. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Pp. xiv + 308. ISBN 9781835538067.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.209-16
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Kaila Yankelevich
217-21
Hudson, Harriet. 2023. William Caxton’s "Paris and Vienne" and "Blanchardyn and Eglantine." Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications. Pp. x + 342. ISBN 9781580445573.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.217-21
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Cosima Clara Gillhammer
222-25
Johnston, Michael. 2023. The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xvi + 288. ISBN 9780192871770.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.222-25
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Yoshinobu Kudo
226-32
Kano, Koichi, ed. 2022. An Invitation to Chaucer’s Cosmos. チョーサー巡礼:古典の遺産と中世の新しい息吹きに導かれて. Tokyo: Yushokan. Pp. xvi + 548. ISBN 9784865820478.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.226-32
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Mark Griffith
233-38
Lucas, Peter J. 2024. Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 58. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. xviii + 398. ISBN 9782503600314.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.233-38
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Kees Dekker
239-44
Lucas, Peter J. 2024. Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley. With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705. Library of the Written World 105. Leiden: Brill. Pp. xxiv + 708. ISBN 9789004516977.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.239-44
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Ondrej Tichy
245-54
Martín Arista, Javier, ed., Sara Domínguez Barragán, Luisa Fidalgo Allo, Laura García Fernández, Yosra Hamdoun Bghiyel, Miguel Lacalle Palacios, Raquel Mateo Mendaza, Carmen Novo Urraca, Ana Elvira Ojanguren López, Esaúl Ruiz Narbona, Roberto Torre Alonso, Marta Tío Sáenz, and Raquel Vea Escarza. 2024. “Nerthusv5. Interface of textual, lexicographical and secondary sources of Old English.” www.nerthusproject.com.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.245-54
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Wanchen Tai
255-62
Piercy, Hannah. 2023. Resistance to Love in Medieval English Romance: Negotiating Consent, Gender and Desire. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. Pp. xi + 275. ISBN 9781843846727.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.255-62
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Christopher Langmuir
263-66
Poveda-Balbuena, Miguel Luis, and José Belda-Medina. 2023. Armamento medieval inglés (1100–1500): Estudio lingüístico-histórico. Granada: Comares. Pp. 148. ISBN 9788413695983.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.263-66
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Laurie Atkinson
267-71
Sawyer, Daniel. 2024. How to Read Middle English Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198895237.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.267-71
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Rafael J. Pascual
272-79
Tolkien, J. R. R. 2024. “Sir Gawain y el Caballero Verde” junto con “Perla” y “Sir Orfeo” editado por Christopher Tolkien. Translated by Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso. Barcelona: Minotauro. Pp. 445. ISBN 9788445009802.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.272-79
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Samantha Zacher
280-84
Wilcox, Jonathan. 2023. Humour in Old English Literature: Communities of Laughter in Early Medieval England. Pp. vii + 343. ISBN 9781487545307.
https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.30.2025.280-84
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The Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM) accepts contributions for its forthcoming issues on any aspect of Medieval English studies. In its new shape and editorial trend, the journal is eager to receive articles, notes, review articles and reviews on a wide range of medieval linguistic and literary topics. Once we have received the contributions, you may expect a decision from the referees in about eight weeks' time.