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Lexical inequities in marriage: Old English Wif, Wer, and Husbonda

Anita R. Riedinger Department of English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 62901–4503, USA
Pages 3-14 | Published online: 21 Jul 2008

Notes

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  • Wainwright , F. T. 1990 . “Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians,” . In New Readings on Women in Old English Literature , Edited by: Damico , Helen and Hennessey Olsen , Alexandra . 44 – 55 . Bloomington : Indiana UP .
  • Power , Eileen . 1975 . Medieval Women , Edited by: Poston , M. M. Cambridge : Cambridge UP .
  • Stenton , Doris M. “The Anglo‐Saxon Woman,” . In The English Woman in History 1 – 28 . especially
  • Whitelock , Dorothy . 1952 . The Beginnings of English Society , Harmondsworth : Penguin .
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  • Damico . “The Valkyrie Reflex in Old English Literature,” . 176 – 190 .
  • Hill , Joyce . “'pæt Wæs Geomuru Ides!’: A Female Stereotype Reconsidered,” . 235 – 247 .
  • Stenton , Frank M. “The Historical Bearing of Place‐Name Studies: The Place of Women in Anglo‐Saxon Society,” . 79 – 88 .
  • Richards , Mary P. and Jane Stanfield , B. “Concepts of Anglo‐Saxon Women in the Laws,” . 89 – 99 .
  • Chance , Jane . 1986 . Woman as Hero in Old English Literature , Syracuse : Syracuse UP .
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  • Millward , C. M. 1989 . A Biography of the English Language , 180 New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston .
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  • 1958 . Apollonius of Tyre , London : Oxford UP . are from Peter Goolden's edition of the work
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  • White , R. M. and Holt , Robert , eds. 1878 . The Ormulum 2 vols. , Oxford rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974)
  • Dunn , Charles W. and Byrnes , Edward T. , eds. 1973 . Middle English Literature , 54 – 98 . New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich .
  • Madden , Frederic , ed. 1847 . Lazamons Brut 3 Vol. , London rpt. Osnabrück: Otto Zeller, 1967)
  • Partridge , Eric . 1983 . Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English , New York : Greenwich House .
  • Onions , C. T. 1966 . the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology , Oxford : Clarendon P .
  • Hood , T. F. 1986 . Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology Oxford
  • Bosworth , Joseph and Northcote Toller , T. 1898 . An Anglo‐Saxon Dictionary , London : Oxford UP .
  • Healey , Antonette and Venezky , Richard , eds. 1980 . A Microfiche Concordance to Old English Toronto
  • Grünberg , M. 1967 . The West Saxon Gospels: A Study of the Gospel of St. Matthew with Text of the Four Gospels , 367 Amsterdam : Scheltema & Holkema NV .
  • Crawford , S. J. , ed. 1922 . The Old English Version of the Heptateuch , 2 – 3 . London : Oxford UP . EETS, OS 160
  • Garmonsway , G. N. , ed. 1991 . The Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle 173 Everyman
  • 1979 . English Historical Documents c. 500–1042 , 2nd ed. , Vol. I , 447 London : Eyre Methuen .
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  • Brook , G. L. and Leslie , R. F. , eds. 1978 . Lajamon's Brut , London : Oxford . EETS 277
  • Barron , W. R. J. and Weinberg , S. C. , eds. 1989 . Lazamon's Arthur , Austin : U of Texas P .
  • Dunn and Byrnes . The Bestiary 151
  • Dunn and Byrnes . King Horn 114 – 155 .
  • Clark , Cecily and Williams , Elizabeth . “After 1066,” . In Women in Anglo‐Saxon England 164
  • Stenton , Doris . 1957 . The English Woman in History London
  • Fischer's , Andreas . 1986 . Engagement, Wedding, and Marriage in Old English , Anglistische Forschungen 176 Heidelberg : Winter .
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