Anglo Saxon to Modern English: Chalk & Cheese?
Date
- 31 Aug 2018
- Expired!
Time
- 2:30 pm
Location
Professor Hugh Magennis, Speaker
From Beowulf to Bring Up the Bodies: kennings to kingship: 1500 years of English-a language for everyone. We are greatly privileged to have Prof. Hugh Magennis, a leading world expert in Old English, share with us his lifelong enthusiasm for this rich and beautiful Germanic language, revealing its development into Modern English.
Professor Hugh Magennis
Speaker
Emeritus Professor @ the School of Arts, English & Languages, the Queens University of Belfast (Russell Group); as former member of staff -Associate Dean, Head of School of English & director of School of Theology. Former student & graduate of QUB. Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Fellow of the English Assoc. , CHAIR of International Assocn of Anglo Saxonists (2004-11) & honorary president of Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (2011- ), Writer & co-author of many academic texts on OE.