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Dream of the Rood ll. 1-10a recording (Old English poem, read aloud)

This assignment will require you to explore a word within an Old English literary passage, using the Dictionary of Old English and DOE Corpus (750-1000 words; undergraduate).

This assignment will require you to explore a word within an Old English literary passage, using the Dictionary of Old English and DOE Corpus, and then create an Omeka exhibit to showcase its depiction in material culture (750-1000 words; 4+-item…

How to use the Dictionary of Old English to look up Old English and Modern English words.

How to navigate the parts of a DOE entry.

How to perform basic DOE Corpus searches finding one word in the corpus, restricting searches to one text or one class of texts, accessing bibliographical information for citations, and including compounds and inflected forms in searches.

How to search the DOE Corpus for multiple words: phrases, word combinations, expressions. Includes regular expression and proximity searches.

How to use the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary texts and research history, law, medicine--even without a background in Old English

A help manual for the Dictionary of Old English and the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (July 2014).

Classwork: students learn how to use DOE and DOE Corpus to search for 'nation-words', thinking about aspects such as date (where it is possible to date the OE text) and type of document (historical, homily, charter, private will) (1 hour) Optional…