GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

Students will be able to recognise the specific features of Germanic linguistics and culture, with particular reference to the influence of Germanic languages and cultures in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages Europe and its consequences.

Germanic peoples: their origins and history in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Germanic languages: taxonomy and historical developments. Germanic linguistics. Aspects of Germanic culture. Migrations and invasions: the case of Britain in the witness of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Germanic anthroponymy. Germanic peoples and the others: the case of Longobard Italy and the kingdom of Man.

1) Nicoletta Francovich Onesti, Filologia germanica. Lingue e culture dei Germani antichi, Roma, 2002 (e successive ristampe).

2) Christopher Plummer (ed.), Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, Oxford, 1892, https://archive.org/details/twosaxonchronic03earlgoog (selected pages).

3) AA.VV., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A Collaborative Edition, vols. 5-8, Cambridge, 1996-2004 (selected pages).

4) Grammatica di riferimento: Gemma Manganella, L’anglosassone e il sassone antico, Napoli, 1961 (Old English only).

5) Dizionario di riferimento: Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Oxford, 1898-1921 (available online in various formats).

6) Maria Giovanna Arcamone, Antroponimia e toponomastica nelle lingue e nelle letterature germaniche antiche, in: Antichità germaniche II parte – II seminario avanzato in Filologia germanica, Università di Torino, 10-14 settembre 2001, a cura di V. Dolcetti Corazza e R. Gendre, Alessandria, 2002, pp. 67-86.

7) Only for students regularly attending classes: runic inscription of the Gallehus horn; Iordanes, Getica, chap. XIV; Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, chapp. 18 and 19; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, year 855 (Æþelwulf's genealogy).

8) Piergiuseppe Scardigli, All’origine dei longobardismi in italiano, in Sprachliche Interferenz. Festschrift Werner Betz, hrsg. von H. Kolb et al., Tübingen, 1977, pp. 335-354.

9) Nicoletta Francovich Onesti, Vestigia longobarde in Italia (568-774). Lessico e antroponimia, Roma, 1999 (selected pages).

10) Valeria Di Clemente, People and Personal Names from the Scandinavian Rune Stones of the Isle of Man, “Itinerari” n.s. 3/2014, pp. 219-245.

11) Supplementary materials.