https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/issue/feedSELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.2023-07-31T19:59:37+00:00Jordi Sánchez-Martíselimjournal@selimsociety.comOpen Journal Systems<p><em>SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature </em>publishes articles, notes, book reviews and other scientific papers that contribute to the advancement of Medieval English Studies and Comparative Medieval Studies. The Journal accepts contributions for its forthcoming issues and welcomes proposals on special issues on any aspect of Medieval English studies. Once we have received the contributions, you may expect a decision from the referees in about eight weeks' time.</p>https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/19399 The Missing Letters J. R. R. Tolkien Received from Derek J. Price and R. M. Wilson: Addendum to “Further Notes on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Photostats of The Equatorie of the Planetis (MS Peterhouse 75.I)”2023-04-10T15:01:49+00:00Andoni Cossioandoni.cossio@ehu.eus<div> <p class="Abstract">In 2021, Andoni Cossio suggested cataloguing <em>The Equatorie of the Planetis </em>(MS Peterhouse 75.I, c. 1393) under “Section A” in <em>Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist</em>, by Oronzo Cilli. One year later, Cossio unearthed the exact list of MS Peterhouse 75.I folios J. R. R. Tolkien had once owned in the form of photostats (2022). In this second article, Cossio alludes the to the hypothetical existence of correspondence that Tolkien exchanged with Derek J. Price and R. M. Wilson during the preparation phase of Price and Wilson’s edition of <em>The Equatorie of the Planetis</em> (1955). New evidence gathered from Maggs Bros. Ltd. private archive (1991b), as well as auction (Phillips 1988; Sotheby’s 1995) and sales (Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1991a) catalogues demonstrate the existence of epistles and other material Tolkien received, though the brief, and often inaccurate, descriptions of the lots and items do not determine Tolkien’s exact contributions. However, the catalogues provide additional information about the timeline of Tolkien’s participation, and disclose that Price was the one to approach Tolkien in the first place. This note will elucidate those aspects and further complement Cossio’s (2022) article in other ways.</p> </div>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20059Bueno Alonso, Jorge Luis, ed. 2022. Tolkien in the 21st Century: Reading, Reception, and Reinterpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 175. ISBN 9781527583955.2023-07-30T14:47:55+00:00Jon Alkorta Martiartujon.alkortam@ehu.eus<p>Book review of Bueno Alonso, Jorge Luis, ed. 2022. <em>Tolkien in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century: Reading, Reception, and Reinterpretation. </em>Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 175. ISBN 9781527583955.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20060Fay, Jacqueline. 2022. Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts. Oxford Textual Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780198757566.2023-07-30T15:00:17+00:00Mercedes Salvador Bellomsalvador@us.es<p>Book review of Fay, Jacqueline. 2022. <em>Materializing Englishness in Early Medieval Texts. Oxford Textual Perspectives</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780198757566.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/19188Guzmán González, Trinidad. 2022. Espejo del Arte de Cocina. De la Corte del rey Ricardo, el Segundo de Inglaterra tras la conquista. Folia Medievalia, 8. León: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León-Inst. Estudios Medievales. Pp. 211. ISBN 9788418490552.2022-12-09T18:35:15+00:00J. Camilo Conde-Silvestrejcconde@um.es<p>Book review of Guzmán González, Trinidad. 2022. <em>Espejo del Arte de Cocina. De la Corte del rey Ricardo, el Segundo de Inglaterra tras la conquista. </em>Folia Medievalia, 8. León: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de León-Inst. Estudios Medievales. <span lang="EN-US">Pp. 211. </span><span lang="EN-GB">ISBN 9788418490552.</span></p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20061Knox, Philip. 2022. The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xv + 296. ISBN 9780192847171.2023-07-30T15:03:45+00:00Koichi Kanokoichi_kano@meiji.ac.jp<p>Book review of Knox, Philip. 2022. <em>The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xv + 296. ISBN 9780192847171.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20062Neidorf, Leonard, ed. 2021. Epic and Romance: A Guide to Medieval European Literature. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press. Pp. 444. ISBN 9787305251276.2023-07-30T15:06:04+00:00Janika Bischof bischofj@uni-muenster.de<p>Book review of Neidorf, Leonard, ed. 2021. <em>Epic and Romance: A Guide to Medieval European Literature</em>. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press. Pp. 444. ISBN 9787305251276.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20063Parker, Eleanor. 2022. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year. London: Reaktion Books. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781789146721.2023-07-30T15:10:00+00:00María del Carmen Muñoz Rodríguez carmunoz@us.es<p>Book review of Parker, Eleanor. 2022. <em>Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year</em>. London: Reaktion Books. Pp. 240. ISBN 9781789146721.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20064Ruszkiewicz, Dominika. 2021. Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry. Studies in Medieval Language and Literature, 58. Berlin: Peter Lang. Pp. 221. ISBN 9783631861738.2023-07-30T15:12:43+00:00Nicola Royannicola.royan@nottingham.ac.uk<p>Book review of Ruszkiewicz, Dominika. 2021. <em>Love and Virtue in Middle English and Middle Scots Poetry</em>. Studies in Medieval Language and Literature, 58. Berlin: Peter Lang. Pp. 221. ISBN 9783631861738.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20065Shippey, Tom. 2022. Beowulf and the North before the Vikings. Leeds: Arc Humanities. Pp. 127. ISBN 9781802700138.2023-07-30T15:20:04+00:00Dennis Cronandcronan@unr.edu<p>Book review of Shippey, Tom. 2022. <em>Beowulf and the North before the Vikings</em>. Leeds: Arc Humanities. Pp. 127. ISBN 9781802700138.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20066Timofeeva, Olga. 2022. Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English. Records of Communities of People. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xv + 204. ISBN 9789027211347.2023-07-30T15:22:34+00:00Julia Fernández Cuestajcuesta@us.es<p>Book review of Timofeeva, Olga. 2022. <em>Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English. Records of Communities of People</em>. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pp. xv + 204. ISBN 9789027211347.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20067Treharne, Elaine. 2021. Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv + 248. ISBN 9780192843814.2023-07-30T15:24:44+00:00Laura Esteban-Segura lesteban@uma.es<p>Book review of Treharne, Elaine. 2021. <em>Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts: The Phenomenal Book</em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv + 248. ISBN 9780192843814.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20068Weikert, Katherine, and Elena Woodacre, eds. 2021. Medieval Intersections: Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 132. ISBN 9781800731547.2023-07-30T15:26:42+00:00María Beatriz Hernándezbhernanp@ull.es<p>Book review of Weikert, Katherine, and Elena Woodacre, eds. 2021. <em>Medieval Intersections: Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages</em>. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 132. ISBN 9781800731547.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20069Whearty, Bridget. 2022. Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781503632752.2023-07-30T15:30:06+00:00Mateusz Fafinski mateusz.fafinski@uni-erfurt.de<p>Book review of <span lang="EN-GB">Whearty, Bridget. 2022. <em>Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor. </em></span>Redwood City:<em> </em><span lang="EN-GB">Stanford University Press. Pp. 338. ISBN 9781503632752.</span></p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/17669Semantic Inheritance in the Lexical Paradigms of Old English Strong Verbs2022-07-14T10:22:29+00:00Luisa Fidalgo Alloluisa.fidalgoa@unirioja.es<p>This work delves into the semantics of Old English lexical paradigms based on strong verbs. Its aim is to describe the patterns of semantic inheritance that hold in these paradigms, which present morphologically related words sharing the form and meaning of the base of derivation. The analysis carried out permits to circumscribe semantic derivation in these Old English lexical paradigms into the lexical entailment relations of troponymy, -troponymy, backward presupposition and cause, and the semantic relations of synonymy and opposition. The data of research has been retrieved from the lexical database <em>Nerthus</em> (Martín Arista et. al 2016). On the theoretical side, this examination follows the English lexical database WordNet (Princeton, 2010). This research unfolds a systematic methodology that is thoroughly described and illustrated by means of the paradigm<em> (ge)berstan</em>. It has not only been possible to circumscribe semantic derivation into the six semantic relations mentioned, but also to determine their frequency of occurrence in the paradigms under analysis, which indicates that synonymy and troponymy are the most recurrent semantic relations.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/19776What Did(n’t) Happen to English?: A Re-evaluation of Some Contact Explanations in Early English2023-05-28T09:06:35+00:00Cynthia L. Allencynthia.allen@anu.edu.au<p>McWhorter (2002) argued that contact with Norse caused simplifications in English grammar that set English apart from other Germanic languages. This paper focuses on one of the losses McWhorter attributed to the linguistic impact of the Scandinavian invasions, External Possessors. An investigation of electronic Old and Early Middle English corpora reveals that the construction was already on the decline in the Old English period, and that Norse contact cannot explain the Early Middle English data. There is no support for the view that the loss of the construction spread from the Scandinavianized areas southwards. The facts are consistent with the view that while Celtic influence did not cause the loss of the construction in Old English, Celtic speakers shifting to English may have played a role in triggering the initial decline of the construction. Study of non-standard variants of other Germanic languages is needed to increase our understanding of the history of External Possessor constructions in those languages.<a href="applewebdata://DE3BC111-34B8-45C9-824B-9B06E7D8418D#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"></a></p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/19542The Inflection of Latin Feminine Proper Names in the Old English Martyrology2023-04-10T08:21:40+00:00Esaúl Ruiz Narbonaesaulrn@gmail.com<p>This paper focuses on the inflections of Latin feminine names in Old English. Whereas most Latin loanwords are perfectly integrated and behave like Old English words as far as their morphology is concerned, like scientific loans, names can take inflectional endings from both Latin and Old English. Ruiz Narbona (2023) has shown that, in the case of masculine names, the distribution of both types of inflections followed certain clear patterns. Following the model of that study, the analysis of the 125 tokens from the<em> Old English Martyrology</em> shows that certain rules can also be established in the case of feminine names. In general terms, the inflections of these names are modelled after Old English weak <em>n-</em>stems, although nominative inflections are invariably Latin. The case with the more widespread variation is the genitive, where both Old English and Latin inflections are consistently used. The latter, however, are heavily restricted to introductory sections and function solely as post-modifiers.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/20072Verbs and Expressions of Calling a Person/Place/Thing in Old and Early Middle English Chronicles and Homilies2023-07-31T07:37:29+00:00Michiko Oguraogura.dainagon@jcom.home.ne.jp<p>There were many ways of calling or naming a person, a place, or other things in Old English: <em>se wæs noe gehaten</em> ‘he is called Noah’,<em> Ioppe hatte sum burh</em> ‘a city was called Joppa’, <em>æt þæm beorge þe mon Athlans nemneð</em> ‘at the mountain which they name (precisely, one names) Atlas’, <em>þe Grecas nemnað paralysis. and we cweðað lyftadl</em> ‘which the Greeks call paralysis, and we call palsy’, <em>his nama is iohannes</em> ‘his name is John’, etc. A clear difference in the use of these verbs and expressions of calling is found between chronicles and homilies. Also, when the contents that describe the same object or theme like false god or the deadly sins, lexical variations or flexible uses of verbs can further become obvious. The aim of this study is to exemplify a variety of expressions of calling found in Old and early Middle English texts, especially in chronicles and homilies, which show syntactic and stylistic continuity with some morphological and lexical alterations. Tables are given to show the choice of each verb form used in each text.</p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.https://reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SELIM/article/view/19075“Terrible Letters”: Bad Handwriting and its Implications, 1020–12202022-11-01T18:03:59+00:00Elaine Treharnetreharne@stanford.edu<p><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 302.915px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.947611);">This article focuses on the role of one of the most fundamental of medieval </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 323.787px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.867806);">figures</span><span style="left: 158.543px; top: 323.787px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif;">—</span><span style="left: 174.848px; top: 323.787px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.862059);">the scribe, as well as on the products of scribes in the eighth to thirteenth centuries. It</span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 344.984px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.932576);"> chiefly add</span><span style="left: 207.336px; top: 344.984px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.896945);">resses how writing seems to have functioned and been conceived of and how </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 366.181px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.852438);">present</span><span style="left: 162.444px; top: 366.181px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif;">-</span><span style="left: 167.54px; top: 366.181px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.897019);">day scholarly palaeographical methods do not always adjudicate medieval writing </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 387.052px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.876827);">practices sensitively or convincingly. This matters, and especially so in our age of the digital </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 408.25px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.860026);">aspect, since the inherited categories of description simply no longer hold force. What </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 429.447px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.912589);">constitutes ‘bad handwriting’ then and is it, in fact, a description that can be validated by </span><span style="left: 116.083px; top: 450.644px; font-size: 16.3056px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.860465);">close analysis of scholarship and medieval writing practices?</span></p>2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 SELIM. Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature.