La Prosa Anglosassone / Old English Prose

Old English Prose is the fifth issue of the journal Germanic Philology, sponsored by the Italian Association of Germamic Philology (AIFG) and edited by P. Lendinara, C. Di Sciacca, J. Hill, L. Lazzari, and L. Vezzosi. The multifaceted volume consists of eleven original contributions by both established scholars and emerging Anglo-Saxonists, ranging from the \u2018Alfredian\u2019 translations to encyclopedic notes, from the anonymous Blickling and Vercelli homilies to \uc6lfric, from source-studies to Old English word-formation and syntax. Contents: M. Cesario, \u2018Romancing the wind: The role of gales in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\u2019; R. Cioffi, \u2018Ne opige nan man to \uf0issere leasunge: Un controverso caso di intercessione mariana al momento del giudizio\u2019; G. Cocco, \u2018From wea to wela: Shipwreck as a foreshadowing of Christian salvation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre\u2019; G.D. De Bonis, \u2018Le Omelie Blickling nella produzione omiletica anglosassone\u2019; K. Dekker, \u2018The organisation and structure of Old English encyclopaedic notes\u2019; M. Godden, \u2018Alfredian prose: Myth and reality\u2019; J. Hill, \u2018Augustine\u2019s tractates on John and the homilies of \uc6lfric\u2019; O. Khalaf, \u2018A study on the translator\u2019s omissions and instances of adaptation in the Old English Orosius: The case of Alexander the Great\u2019; L. Pezzarossa, \u2018Reading Orosius in the Viking Age: An influential yet problematic model\u2019; H. Sauer, \u2018Vercelli Homilies and word-formation\u2019; L. Vezzosi, \u2018Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice\u2019