Gernot Wieland is an emeritus professor at the

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, who specializes in the

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

period, specifically

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in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, relations between Anglo-Saxon scholars and their continental counterparts, and the Latin literature written by Anglo-Saxons. Wieland's 1983 ''The Latin Glosses on Arator and Prudentius'' established a typology of glosses. In 2017

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published a ''Festschrift'' in his honor, ''Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe''.

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External links

Wieland's page at UBC
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wieland, Gernot Living people Canadian medievalists German medievalists Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Anglo-Saxon studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people)