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""The four glossaries transmitted in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730 are intriguing witnesses to the joint use of Latin, English and Anglo-Norman after the Norman Conquest of England. Dating from the early thirteenth century and originating in Buildwas Abbey in the West Midlands, they shed a fascinating light on the reuse and transformation of Anglo-Saxon linguistic material in the early Middle English period. Claudio Cataldi's new edition makes available for the first time the complete text of these glossaries, along with a comprehensive discussion of the sources and analogues of entries. It will prove indispensable for future studies on English medieval glossography and to all readers interested in the transition from Old to Middle English and the multilingual milieu in post-Conquest England."" -- Annina Seiler, University of Zurich

The four glossaries transmitted in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730 are intriguing witnesses to the joint use of Latin, English and Anglo-Norman after the Norman Conquest of England. Dating from the early thirteenth century and originating in Buildwas Abbey in the West Midlands, they shed a fascinating light on the reuse and transformation of Anglo-Saxon linguistic material in the early Middle English period. Claudio Cataldi's new edition makes available for the first time the complete text of these glossaries, along with a comprehensive discussion of the sources and analogues of entries. It will prove indispensable for future studies on English medieval glossography and to all readers interested in the transition from Old to Middle English and the multilingual milieu in post-Conquest England. -- Annina Seiler, University of Zurich

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Claudio Cataldi earned his doctorate in English at the University of Bristol in 2018 with a dissertation on the theme of the ""soul and body"" in medieval English literature. His main research interests are in the field of Old and Early Middle English religious poetry, Old and Middle English glosses and glossaries, and Old Frisian literature. Educare alla salvezza, his edition, with commentary, of the Old English poems in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 201, was published in 2021. Essays by him have appeared in diverse journals, including Anglia, Filologia Germanica - Germanic Philology, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, and Notes & Queries.

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