BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news562@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240901T193515 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240905T093000 SUMMARY:Old English in Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Swiss libraries preserve some eighteen manuscripts containing O ld English. These texts attest to links between Britain and Switzerland at very different times: some Old English texts were brought to Switzerland in the modern era\, while others have been in Switzerland since the early Middle Ages. This talk focuses on the early relations between Anglo-Saxon England and Swiss monastic centres\, notably St. Gallen\, Schaffhausen and Einsiedeln. It presents three case studies: biblical glosses from the Can terbury school\, Old English names of the months and Bede’s Death Song\, whose earliest surviving copy is in a manuscript from St. Gallen. The tal k explores how these texts ended up in Switzerland and what speakers of Ol d High German made of Old English texts.\\r\\nAnnina Seiler currently work s on a research project entitled ‘Glossaries: Lexicography in the Englis h Middle Ages’\, in which she investigates glossaries and dictionaries f rom the early Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Middle Ages. She is par ticularly interested in the role of English in medieval lexicography and i ts relation to other languages\, most notably Latin and French. Her genera l research interests include: History of the English language\, Old and Mi ddle English language and literature\, the West Germanic languages\, orali ty and literacy in the Middle Ages\, the functions of writing and the conn ections between roman and runic script\, the history of linguistic thought . X-ALT-DESC:

Swiss libraries preserve some eighteen manuscripts containing Old English. These texts attest to links between Britain and Switzerland at very different times: some Old English texts were brought to Switzerlan d in the modern era\, while others have been in Switzerland since the earl y Middle Ages. This talk focuses on the early relations between Anglo-Saxo n England and Swiss monastic centres\, notably St. Gallen\, Schaffhausen a nd Einsiedeln. It presents three case studies: biblical glosses from the C anterbury school\, Old English names of the months and Bede’s Death Song \, whose earliest surviving copy is in a manuscript from St. Gallen. The t alk explores how these texts ended up in Switzerland and what speakers of Old High German made of Old English texts.

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Annina Seiler < /strong>currently works on a research project entitled ‘Glossaries: Lexi cography in the English Middle Ages’\, in which she investigates glossar ies and dictionaries from the early Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the M iddle Ages. She is particularly interested in the role of English in medie val lexicography and its relation to other languages\, most notably Latin and French. Her general research interests include: History of the English language\, Old and Middle English language and literature\, the West Germ anic languages\, orality and literacy in the Middle Ages\, the functions o f writing and the connections between roman and runic script\, the history of linguistic thought.

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