Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367667856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Emily Butler

Opis

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies it as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving from the 8^th-13^th centuries, to the 16^th-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this period in the history o

Spis treści

Introduction: Community and Distance

Chapter 1: Latinity and the English People

Chapter 2: Crafting a Textual Kingdom in Wessex

Chapter 3: Preaching and Politics in a Time of Conquest

Chapter 4: Old and Newer English in the West Midlands

Chapter 5: Shewing the Auncient Fayth: An Elizabethan Sequel

Conclusion

O autorze

Emily Butler, Assistant Professor of English at John Carroll University, USA, is an Anglo-Saxonist working on attitudes to language and how such attitudes shape textual communities and impinge on textual production. Recent work includes articles and papers on the Old English Prose Psalms, Matthew Parker's medieval collection, and the Encomium Emmae Reginae.