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Mark Griffith, Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall (eds), Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill., Notes and Queries, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 638–639, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjp221
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THE nineteen articles here cover a fairly wide range of medieval texts and topics, but the focus is on Anglo-Saxon literature: there are three on Beowulf, five on other Old English poems (The Dream of the Rood, Christ I, The Wife’s Lament, The Wanderer), eight on Old and early Middle English prose (the Alfredian Boethius and the Dialogues, Ælfric’s Lives of the Saints, the Old English homilies Fadda I and Blickling I, the Old English Adrian and Ritheus, the later parts of the Peterborough Chronicle, and Old and Middle English alliterative proverbs) and three on early medieval Latin (Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica, the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister, the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius). Several of the papers have been presented at Kalamazoo sessions and two at Oxford Alfredian Project conferences. Appendices list the many and various publications of the honorand, Thomas D. Hill, and the fifteen dissertations completed at his direction. Nearly half of those so supervised are contributors to the volume. A list of the contributors, an index of manuscripts and a general index complete the work. A preface with a succinct overview of Hill’s academic interests and of the main subject matters of the following articles opens it. The title, Source of Wisdom, is intended as a compliment to Hill rather than an indication of a general theme. The whole provides a rather more coherent and certainly a more satisfying read than some festschrifts, partly because much arises out of Hill’s scholarly pursuits, but mainly because of the high quality of almost everything on offer.
