Author : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 26,5 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 : 32,34 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 : Candace Barrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 38,31 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 : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 16,94 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 : Bernardus Silvestris
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1990-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231513562
The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris
Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : David Howlett
Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780197264218
This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language, drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources.
Author : John Gower
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN :
Author : Robert Gallagher
Publisher : Brill's the Early Middle Ages
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004428119
"This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records. Building on previous work on the uses of the written word in the early Middle Ages, which has dispelled the myth that this was an age of 'orality', the contributions in this volume bring to the fore the crucial question of language choice in the documentary cultures of early medieval societies. Specifically, they examine the interactions between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds and in neighbouring areas. The chapters are underpinned by an important comparative dimension on account of the two regions' shared linguistic heritage and numerous cross-Channel links."--
Author : John McWhorter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1592404944
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).
