Martha Bayless
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martha Bayless is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 36. Fairies from Walter Map to European folklore Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage, Stella, Francesco (ed.), pp. 588–595 | Chapter
Fairies feature widely in medieval literature, but their appearances in medieval Latin texts provide a special window onto belief in fairies. Since the Latin vocabulary for magical beings in general was largely borrowed from Classical sources, Latin can muddy the semantics of fairy taxonomy. But… read more
1993 Beatus quid est and the study of grammar in late anglo-saxon England Historiographia Linguistica 20:1, pp. 67–110 | Article
Beatus quid est, a Latin grammar of English origin, found in an eleventh-century manuscript, has much to tell us about the pedagogy of elementary grammar in the classroom. The text is assembled from a number of grammmatical authorities, foremost among them Donatus and Priscian, uses the… read more
1993 Beatus quid est and the study of Grammar in Late Anglo-Saxon England History of Linguistic Thought in the Early Middle Ages, Law, Vivien A. (ed.), pp. 67–110 | Article