A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century: Language and Literature Between Old and Middle English

ISBN-13: 9781316516096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Mark (Trinity College Dublin) Faulkner

Opis

Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Recenzje

'Original, meticulously researched, and well-written … the New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century is far and away the best study of the period to date. … Any future work on the period will need to begin with this important book.' Tim William Machan, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Approaching Twelfth-Century English-Language Texts; Part II. The Affordances of English: 3. English in the Linguistic Ecology of the Long Twelfth Century; 4. English as a Language of Documentary Record; 5. English as a Language for Writing History; 6. English as a Language for Sermon Writing; 7. Conclusion.