Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1903153476
The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, readers, texts and documents in England from the 11th to the later 15th century.
Author : Alaric Hall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004180117
The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.
Author : Andrew Galloway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521856892
A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.
Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1843844591
Recent research has emphasised the importance of insular French in medieval English culture alongside English and Latin; for a period of some four hundred years, French (variously labelled the French of England, Anglo-Norman, Anglo-French, and Insular French) rivalled these two languages. The essays here focus on linguistic adaptation and translation in this new multilingual England, where John Gower wrote in Latin while his contemporary Chaucer could break new ground in English.
Author : Candace Barrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107180783
A comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the interrelationship between law and literature in Anglo-Saxon, Medieval and Tudor England.
Author : MARY KATE. HURLEY
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2025-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814257951
Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.
Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107058597
Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.
Author : Carissa M. Harris
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501730428
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Author : Richard Ingham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1903153301
Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.
Author : Edmund King
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
Medieval England presents the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback, and consolidation, with England emerging as a wealthy and stable country, many of whose essential features were to remain unchanged until the Industrial Revolution. Edmund King traces his chronicle through the lives of successive monarchs, the inescapable central thread of that epoch. The momentous events of the times are also recreated, from the compiling of the Domesday Book, through the wars with the Scots, the Welsh, and the French, to the Peasants' Revolt and the disastrous Black Death.
