In Gold in der europäischen Heldensage, ed. Heike Sahm, Wilhelm Heizmann, and Victor Millet, Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, 2018
In Beowulf there is public gold, personal gold and the hidden gold which can send its owner to he... more In Beowulf there is public gold, personal gold and the hidden gold which can send its owner to hell. King Hrothgar gives Beowulf more of the first kind in order to withhold from him the second, so helping him to the third. The poet points particularly to King Beowulf’s damnation. Because the dead king is his theme, and because ignorance of Christ defines the difference between Beowulf’s polity and his own, the poet makes Beowulf the best of his bygone world and then shows how gold will destroy him.
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To come out in 'Sensory Perception in the Medieval West', ed. Michael D. J. Bintley and Simon Thomson
To come out in 'Between the Worlds', ed. Wilhelm Heizmann and Matthias Egeler
To come out in 'Sensory Perception in the Medieval West', ed. Michael D. J. Bintley and Simon Thomson
To come out in 'Between the Worlds', ed. Wilhelm Heizmann and Matthias Egeler
Contributors: Heinrich Beck, Jan A. van Nahl, Thomas Krümpel, Olof Sundqvist, Jiri Stary, Matthias Teichert, Matthias Egeler, Richard North, Edith Marold, Rudolf Simek, Daniel Sävborg, Dieter Strauch.
You can access the WebApp here: https://sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/
This is the first-ever app, specifically designed for mobile phone and tablet, to present significant new scholarly work in an edition of a major literary work: the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Go to PlayStore (Android) or the App Store (Apple/IoS) and look for “Chaucer General Prologue” (Scholarly Digital Editions). Or, go to https://www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/. Press the play icon.
This app includes a new biography of Chaucer by Richard North (UCL), a new text edited by Barbara Bordalejo (USask), Terry Jones’s translation of the General Prologue, additional materials about the Tales by Peter Robinson (who created the app), images of the Hengwrt manuscript form the National Library of Wales, and a full performance of the text by University of Saskatchewan and University of Calgary student Colin Gibbings. Among much else: the full commentary and notes by Richard North suggest a new dating for the reference to the seige of Algezir, which makes the Knight significantly younger at the time of the composition of the General Prologue.
The app is designed to appeal to people interested in Chaucer at every level, from beginning students to advanced scholars. We plan future apps in this series.
The app also celebrates Terry Jones, who was both a distinguished medieval scholar and a Python. As well as contribute his translation of the General Prologue, he was much involved in the early planning of the app, hosting the team to a memorable lunch at a pub in North London. We are happy that we were able to show him the full app in the last weeks of his life.
We attach the University of Saskatchewan press release about the app. Readers might also be interested in the Canterbury Tales project, at www.textualcommunities.org (click on the link to the Canterbury Tales project). This offers images of all 30,000 manuscript pages of the Tales, with transcripts of some 24,000 pages. The work of this project underlies the app.
Peter Robinson and Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan), Richard North (University College London). With Terry Jones (Python).