Old English Prose is the fifth issue of the journal Germanic Philology, sponsored by the Italian Association of Germamic Philology (AIFG) and edited by P. Lendinara, C. Di Sciacca, J. Hill, L. Lazzari, and L. Vezzosi. The multifaceted volume consists of eleven original contributions by both established scholars and emerging Anglo-Saxonists, ranging from the ‘Alfredian’ translations to encyclopedic notes, from the anonymous Blickling and Vercelli homilies to Ælfric, from source-studies to Old English word-formation and syntax. Contents: M. Cesario, ‘Romancing the wind: The role of gales in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’; R. Cioffi, ‘Ne opige nan man to ðissere leasunge: Un controverso caso di intercessione mariana al momento del giudizio’; G. Cocco, ‘From wea to wela: Shipwreck as a foreshadowing of Christian salvation in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre’; G.D. De Bonis, ‘Le Omelie Blickling nella produzione omiletica anglosassone’; K. Dekker, ‘The organisation and structure of Old English encyclopaedic notes’; M. Godden, ‘Alfredian prose: Myth and reality’; J. Hill, ‘Augustine’s tractates on John and the homilies of Ælfric’; O. Khalaf, ‘A study on the translator’s omissions and instances of adaptation in the Old English Orosius: The case of Alexander the Great’; L. Pezzarossa, ‘Reading Orosius in the Viking Age: An influential yet problematic model’; H. Sauer, ‘Vercelli Homilies and word-formation’; L. Vezzosi, ‘Relative clauses in Old English prose: A stylistic choice’.
