Christine Wallis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christine Wallis plays a role.
Articles
2018 Chapter 4. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 79–102 | Chapter
The text of the Old English Bede found in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 41 (B) is remarkable for its extensively updated language, when compared with other, earlier Bede manuscripts. This paper compares B with other manuscripts of the Bede to uncover some of the scribal decisions which… read more
2013 Layers of reading in the Old English Bede: The case of Oxford Corpus Christi College 279B Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article
The Old English translation of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (the “Old English Bede”) has been studied for what it can tell us about translation practices and the state of learning in Anglo-Saxon England. However, although some Old English Bede manuscripts have been comparatively well-studied, very… read more