The Tremulous Hand of Worcester: A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198117421 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 264 str.

Christine Franzen

Opis

The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as the "tremulous hand of Worcester" is well known to scholars and students of Old and early Middle English. This book examines the full range of the scribe's work and answers such important questions as why he glossed the words he did and how well he knew or came to know Old English. This first full-scale study of the subject provides a wealth of information about the state of the English language at a transitional point in its history.

Recenzje

'Christine Franzen's remarkable study of the Worcester Tremulous hand is a singular book for a number of reasons. It is complex and highly technical study which, if it had been undertaken by a pedant, would have been exceedingly dull to all but a handful of diehard palaeographers. But it is far from pedantic or dull. Franzen writers clearly, and with great personal interest in her chosen work. ... an intriguing work on a technical subject that is highly readable and enjoyable, as an academic "detective analysis" if nothing else. What is best about her book is that it is nicely organized.' A N Q Vol 7 No 2 April '94