Symposium

41st Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL41)

Date

Friday 13 December 2019

Time

10:30 - 17:30

Series

Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)

Location

Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
Leiden

Room

227

An annual symposium where researchers from Dutch, Belgian and increasingly German universities share their novel research on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics. This 41st edition will be concluded by a keynote address by Christina Lee (University of Nottingham).

Programme

10.30 – 10.55	Reception with coffee
10.55 – 11.00	Welcome
11.00 – 11.30	Berber Bossenbroek (Leiden University) “The Unwhole and the Unholy: Thinking about Deafness and Blindness in Early Medieval England”
11.30 – 12.00	Gea Dreschler (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) “On þam dagum wæron on Wihtlande þreo wif: The Discourse Function of So-Called Late Subjects in Old English”
12.00 – 12.30	Tino Oudesluijs (Université de Lausanne) “'Resisting Linguistic Change in the Age of Standardisation: The Use and Development of Periphrastic DO in Early Modern Coventry'”
	Lunch break
14.00 – 14.30	Kimberley Mouvet (University of Ghent) “Thematic Analysis of Clause-Initial Negators in Beowulf”
14.30 – 15.00	Aline Douma (University of Groningen) “'British Library, Royal MS 17 D.XV: A Wars of the Roses Compilation”
15.00 – 15.30	Lauren Fonteyn (Leiden University) “Lifespan Change (or the Lack Thereof) in the Language of Ten Modern English Gentlemen”
	Tea break
16.00 – 16.30	Daniel McCann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) “The Medicine of Sound: Charming Words in A Talking of the Love of God”
	Guest Speaker
16.30 – 17.30	Christina Lee (University of Nottingham) "Ælc man sceal sar ðolian: Health and Healing in Early Medieval England”
17.30 –	Conclusion. Opportunity for drinks afterwards and, optionally, a joint dinner in an Asian restaurant near the station.

 

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