Kees Dekker

University of Groningen, English Language and Culture, Faculty Member

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Kees Dekker is a Senior Lecturer in Older English Language and Literature at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). After obtaining my PhD (Leiden, 1997) I worked in Leiden as a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher and moved to Groningen in 2000. My research interests include the transmission and dissemination of encyclopaedic knowledge and learning during the Anglo-Saxon period, in particular the role of encyclopaedic notes and glosses, and the manuscripts that contain them. I co-organised the international research project ‘Storehouses of Wholesome Learning: Accumulation and Dissemination of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages’ (Palermo, Leiden, Groningen), and am currently preparing a monograph on encyclopaedic notes in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Another focus of my research is the history of Old English and Old Germanic studies during the early modern period, especially the work of Jan van Vliet (1622–1666), Francis Junius (1591–1677), Thomas Marshall (1621–1685), and their contemporaries. Current work includes a study of Thomas Marshall’s work and a description of the Junius manuscripts.

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The Other ‘Junius’ in Oxford, Bodleian Library Ms Junius 74: Francis Junius and a Scots Glossary by Patrick Young (1584–1652)

Scottish language, 2016

1. INTRODUCTION Among the collection of books and manuscripts left to the Bodleian Library by the... more 1. INTRODUCTION Among the collection of books and manuscripts left to the Bodleian Library by the seventeenth-century Dutch philologist, art historian, etymologist and lexicographer, Francis Junius (1591-1677), there are six items which provide evidence of Junius's interest in Scots. (2) They are: MSS Junius 4 and 5, Junius's etymological dictionary of English, published posthumously in 1743 by the antiquarian Edward Lye under the title Etymologicum Anglicanunr, MS Junius 6, his glossary of Chaucer's works; MS Junius 9, his annotated edition of The Workes of Our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed, ed. Thomas Speght (London, 1598); MS Junius 54, Junius's annotated copy of Gavin Douglas, XIII. Bukes of Eneados of the Famose Poete Virgil Translatet Out of Latyne Verses into Scottish Metir (London, 1553); MS Junius 74, fols. 18-36r, a glossary of Scots words with mostly Greek etyma; MS Junius 114, Junius's notes on Gavin Douglas, Eneados...

Mother tongues and maternal language

Historiographia Linguistica, 2012

Evoke and A Thesaurus of Old English in the Old English Classroom

Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 2021

The use of Evoke and the Thesaurus of Old English (TOE) in the classroom at beginners’ level is n... more The use of Evoke and the Thesaurus of Old English (TOE) in the classroom at beginners’ level is not self-evident, since both are electronic tools designed to facilitate lexicological research for more advanced users. Nonetheless, there is an advantage in acquainting students with modern electronic tools allowing relevant, piecemeal investigations into the lexicon. This contribution focuses on the usage of Evoke in the classroom, suggesting the types of assignments that may be designed for this purpose and exploring further possibilities.

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