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Pre-print Extracts - The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
A series of extracts from S. Lee and E. Solopova's 'The Keys of Middle-earth' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). The books sets out to attract fans of Tolkien's fiction to the original medieval texts by providing analysis, texts in their original, and…
Stained Glass in Anglo-Saxon England
From Videmus, the online magazine for medieval stained glass (http://www.vidimus.org/index.html): This feature supports the launch of a major campaign by the Wearmouth – Jarrow Partnership to have the remains of two Anglo-Saxon monasteries at…
Oxford University English Faculty Exam Papers 1911-1920
Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1911-1920. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.
St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale
A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…
Oxford University English Faculty Exam Papers 1921-1930
Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1921-1930. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.
Oxford University English Faculty Exam Papers 1931-1939
Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1931-1939. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.
Exercises on Old English syntax
Traditionally, Old English grammars and manuals have focused too much on morphology and phonology, leaving quite aside the study of syntax (word order). Even today, very few publications contain exercises specifically designed to practise Old English…
Beowulf Workstation (Hypercard Stacks)
This is a zipped file of all the original material used in the computer-based 'Beowulf Workstation'. This was written in HyperCard on the Apple Macintosh, late c. 1990 by Professor Patrick Conner at West Virginia University to help students study and…
Napier Pamphlets Box III-IV Aelfric-Ancren Riwle
These pamphlets formed part of the collection of Professor Arthur Napier, which was acquired by the University after his death. They are reproduced by kind permission of the Oxford University English Faculty Library. Please note that these are…
OE teaching materials
I enclose documents to help students visualise the different grammatical categories, their features and forms, as well as documents to help the students learn some OE vocabulary. Most of the documents on OE grammar were created with dyslexic students…