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The Junius manuscript is one of the four major codices of Old English literature. Written in the 10th century, it contains poetry dealing with Biblical subjects in Old English , the vernacular language of Anglo-Saxon England.
Introduction. “Junius 11” is the nickname of a manuscript of Old English biblical poetry, whose formal shelf mark is Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11. It contains the sole surviving copies of four long Old English poems, which modern editors have titled Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.
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Early English and other manuscripts collected by Francis Junius (1589-1677). Franciscus Junius the Younger (1591-1677) was born in Heidelberg. Brought up among the Calvinist scholars of the University of Leiden, he began his career as a theologian. As a consequence of the religious quarrels between the Arminians and the Gomarists, he resigned ...
Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms. Leucippus's ideas were influential in ancient and Renaissance philosophy.
Junius often refers to: Junius (writer), the pseudonym of an 18th-century British political writer of strongly Whig principles; The nomen of the ancient Roman Junia gens; Junius or Iunius, the month of June on the ancient Roman calendar; Rosa Luxemburg's Junius Pamphlet (German: Junius-Broschüre), a nickname for a pamphlet Luxemburg wrote in ...
Junius was the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the Public Advertiser, [1] from 21 January 1769 to 21 January 1772. The signature had been already used, apparently by him, in a letter of 21 November 1768. These and numerous other personal letters were not included in his Letters of Junius collection, published in 1772.
Mar 18, 2024 · Old English language. Franciscus Junius, the Younger (born 1589, Heidelberg, Palatinate [Germany]—died Nov. 19, 1677, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.) was a language and literary scholar whose works stimulated interest in the study of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and the cognate old Germanic languages.
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