Old English Student Society KNA UJ

01/10/2026

Hwaet!
Today is the inauguration of the new academic year at Jagiellonian University. The OESS is happy to begin that year by sharing news about an upcoming conference!

15/07/2026

Hwaet!
Missing Old English during your summer break? Here is a simple solution for your predicament:
Join us online for a very interesting lecture!

REGISTRATION LINK:
https://emergence.leiden.edu/OEB1.html

08/06/2026

Hwaet!
We would like to extend a very warm invitation to an online meeting, which will give us the opportunity to listen to a paper delivered by mgr Maryna Andrusevich (University of Warsaw):
"The historical development of the perfect aspect from Proto-Indo-European to Late Old English: Auxiliary selection in periphrastic perfect constructions in Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies and the Peterborough Chronicle"

The paper examines the historical development of the perfect aspect in a broad diachronic perspective. It discusses the origins of the category in Proto-Indo-European and the emergence of periphrastic perfect constructions in Vulgar Latin, then turning to the earliest manifestations of perfect in early Germanic languages (Gothic). Subsequently, the study discusses the rise, meaning and formation of periphrastic perfect constructions in late Old English, focusing on the means employed for the expression of perfective meaning, the two-auxiliary system attested in the period, and the issue of auxiliary selection.

The analysis is based on two representative prose texts: Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies (included in the Dictionary of Old English Corpus), representing Classical Late Old English, and the Peterborough Chronicle (Innsbruck Corpus), a transitional text spanning the late Old English and early Middle English periods.

This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of the Old English perfect by examining its development both prior to and during the Old English period and outlining the main tendencies that shaped its later evolution.

25/05/2026

Wondering where to find us? Worry no more! We have created a list of all of the important links for you:
https://linktr.ee/oess.uj

18/05/2026

Hwaet :)
The conference last week was a great success, but we are not sitting still after that! We are thirsty for more! Feel very warmly invited to a guest lecture organised this week!

30/04/2026

If you want to learn more about the new discovery, we recommend checking this source:

A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v - Volume 52

30/04/2026

Fascinating news!

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

30/03/2026

Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to a wonderful talk by dr hab. Łukasz Neubauer (University of Szczecin). He mesmerised us with stories of two professors: Tolkien and Mroczkowski. We are looking forward to his upcoming book!

Po kilkugodzinnej kwerendzie przyszła pora na spotkanie ze studentami koła naukowego Instytutu Filologii Angielskiej. O Mroczkowskim i Tolkienie miałem mówić przez godzinę, ale skończyło się na dwóch...

23/03/2026

Hi! Thank you for being willing to help us organise the 8th Old English Student Conference. Please fill in this form so that we know what you'd like to help out with. The form will be open until April 7 - after that we will send you information about which team you have been assigned to and all the....

19/01/2026

With great pleasure we announce our third special guest 📣📣

Monika Opalińska is Associate Professor of historical linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her scholarly interests focus on historical phonology of Germanic languages, history of the English language, and manuscript studies. She is currently working on Old and Middle English versified translations of the Pater Noster and the fragmentary N-Psalter from 11th-century England.
Monika Opalińska is the coordinator of SIGLUM Research Group for the Study of Manuscripts: https://siglum.uw.edu.pl/en/siglum/

More information about her interests and projects can be found here:
https://ia.uw.edu.pl/instytut/wykladowcy/szczegoly/monika-opalinska