Multilingualism In Early Medieval Britain

Author : Lindy Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009275828
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain written by Lindy Brady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain.

Author : D. A. Trotter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859915632
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain written by D. A. Trotter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain. The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all the articles collected here from leading international experts in their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history, sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work done on the bridges of the river Thames. Contributors: PAUL BRAND, BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER, WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A. TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT Professor D.A. TROTTER is Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Author : Sara M. Pons-Sanz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031309472
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval English in a Multilingual Context written by Sara M. Pons-Sanz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in (sub)disciplines of linguistics including historical linguistics, onomastics, lexicology and lexicography, sociolinguistics, code-switching and language contact, and also includes contributions from literary and socio-cultural studies, material culture, and palaeography. The authors focus on the variety of languages in use in medieval Britain, including English, Old Norse, Norn, Dutch, Welsh, French, and Latin, making the argument that understanding the impact of medieval multilingualism on the development of English requires multidisiplinarity and the bringing together of different frameworks in linguistics and cultural studies to achieve more nuanced answers. This book will be of interest to academics and students of historical linguistics and medieval textual culture.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432337
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Early Medieval Charters written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the documentary cultures of the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds.

Author : Judith Anne Jefferson
Publisher : Brepols Pub
ISBN 13 : 9782503542508
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520) written by Judith Anne Jefferson and published by Brepols Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the study of multilingual Britain in the later medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to John Skelton. It brings together experts from different disciplines--history, linguistics, and literature - in a joint effort to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the Middle Ages. Each author focuses on one specific text or text type, and demonstrates by example what careful analysis can reveal about the nature of medieval multilingualism and about medieval attitudes to the different living languages of later medieval Britain. There are chapters on charters, sermons, religious prose, glossaries, manorial records, biblical translations, chronicles, and the macaronic poetry of William Langland and John Skelton. By addressing the full range of languages spoken and written in later medieval Britain (Latin, French, Old Norse, Welsh, Cornish, English, Dutch, and Hebrew), this collection reveals the linguistic situation of the period in its true diversity and shows the resourcefulness of medieval people when faced with the need to communicate. For medieval writers and readers, the ability to move between languages opened up a wealth of possibilities: possibilities for subtle changes of register, for counterpoint, for linguistic playfulness, and, perhaps most importantly, for texts which extend a particular challenge to the reader to engage with them.

Author : Elizabeth M. Tyler
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503528564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptualizing Multilingualism in England, C.800-c.1250 written by Elizabeth M. Tyler and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the period 800-1250, English culture was marked by linguistic contestation and pluralism: the consequence of migrations and conquests and of the establishment and flourishing of the Christian religion centred on Rome. In 855 the Danes 'over-wintered' for the first time, re-initiating centuries of linguistic pluralism; by 1250 English had, overwhelmingly, become the first language of England. Norse and French, the Celtic languages of the borderlands, and Latin competed with dialects of English for cultural precedence. Moreover, the diverse relations of each of these languages to the written word complicated textual practices of government, poetics, the recording of history, and liturgy. Geographical or societal micro-languages interacted daily with the 'official' languages of the Church, the State, and the Court. English and English speakers also played key roles in the linguistic history of medieval Europe. At the start of the period of inquiry, Alcuin led the reform of Latin in the Carolingian Empire, while in the period after the Conquest, the long-established use of English as a written language encouraged the flourishing of French as a written language. This interdisciplinary volume brings the complex and dynamic multilingualism of medieval England into focus and opens up new areas for collaborative research.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107058597
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Medieval English written by Tim William Machan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153476
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Culture in Medieval Britain written by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047444612
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197262771
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain written by Michael Lapidge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries.