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Women's Names in Old English by Elisabeth Okasha (review)

Women's Names in Old English by Elisabeth Okasha (review) 332 Short Notices Matthew Treherne argues that Dante's innovation in the configuration of Purgatory and Heaven can be understood through the liturgical performance of the characters in those realms, respectively penitence and praise. Denys Turner proposes to read the poetry of the Commedia, in dialogue with the theological methods of Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart, as sacrament, seeking to `effect what it signifies', especially in its apophatic mode. Dante scholarship for the non-dantista is often awe-inspiring in the way its critical discourses wrestle with the depth, breadth, and complexity of the Commedia. This collection is no exception. Julie Robarts Italian Studies, School of Languages and Linguistics The University of Melbourne Okasha, Elisabeth, Women's Names in Old English (Studies in Early Medieval Britain), Farnham, Ashgate, 2011; hardback; pp. 150; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781409400103. This is a narrowly focused linguistic study. Elisabeth Okasha bases her analysis on a corpus of 289 Old English names she has identified as female. Her corpus includes only the names of individuals referred to by a female pronoun and/ or designated by titles such as `wife' or `sister'. Most of the names in Okasha's corpus are compounds consisting of two name-elements (e.g., Æthel-thryth). Not only http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Parergon Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

Women's Names in Old English by Elisabeth Okasha (review)

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Parergon , Volume 29 (2) – Feb 14, 2012
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332 Short Notices Matthew Treherne argues that Dante's innovation in the configuration of Purgatory and Heaven can be understood through the liturgical performance of the characters in those realms, respectively penitence and praise. Denys Turner proposes to read the poetry of the Commedia, in dialogue with the theological methods of Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart, as sacrament, seeking to `effect what it signifies', especially in its apophatic mode. Dante scholarship for the non-dantista is often awe-inspiring in the way its critical discourses wrestle with the depth, breadth, and complexity of the Commedia. This collection is no exception. Julie Robarts Italian Studies, School of Languages and Linguistics The University of Melbourne Okasha, Elisabeth, Women's Names in Old English (Studies in Early Medieval Britain), Farnham, Ashgate, 2011; hardback; pp. 150; R.R.P. £55.00; ISBN 9781409400103. This is a narrowly focused linguistic study. Elisabeth Okasha bases her analysis on a corpus of 289 Old English names she has identified as female. Her corpus includes only the names of individuals referred to by a female pronoun and/ or designated by titles such as `wife' or `sister'. Most of the names in Okasha's corpus are compounds consisting of two name-elements (e.g., Æthel-thryth). Not only

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