The Linguistic Past In Twelfth Century Britain
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Author | : Sara Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316851559 |
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How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered vernacular literature's prestige and led to a newfound sense of how ancient languages could be used to convey historical claims. The vernacular hence became an important site for the construction and memorialisation of dynastic, institutional and ethnic identities. This study demonstrates the breadth of interest in the linguistic past across different social groups and the striking variety of genre used to depict it, including romance, legal translation, history, poetry and hagiography. Through a series of detailed case studies, Sara Harris shows how specific works represent key aspects of the period's imaginative engagement with English, Brittonic, Latin and French language development.
Author | : Sara Harris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1107180058 |
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This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain's past.
Author | : Mary Swan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-08-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521623728 |
Download Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Ten essays on the study of Old English texts in the twelfth century, first published in 2000.
Author | : Martin Brett |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2015-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472428196 |
Download The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in various different scholarly disciplines, the volume deals with a much broader range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence than has hitherto been the case. Divided into four main parts: The Anglo-Saxon Saints; Anglo-Saxon England in the Narrative of Britain; Anglo-Saxon Law and Charter; and Art-history and the French Vernacular, it scrutinises the majority of different genres of source material that are vital in any study of early medieval British history. In so doing the resultant volume will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.
Author | : Martin Brett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317025156 |
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Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in various different scholarly disciplines, the volume deals with a much broader range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence than has hitherto been the case. Divided into four main parts: The Anglo-Saxon Saints; Anglo-Saxon England in the Narrative of Britain; Anglo-Saxon Law and Charter; and Art-history and the French Vernacular, it scrutinises the majority of different genres of source material that are vital in any study of early medieval British history. In so doing the resultant volume will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.
Author | : Jacqueline M. Burek |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2023-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1914049101 |
Download Literary Variety and the Writing of History in Britain's Long Twelfth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Histories of Britain composed during the "twelfth-century renaissance" display a remarkable amount of literary variety (Latin varietas). Furthermore, British historians writing after the Norman Conquest often draw attention to the differing forms of their texts. But why would historians of this period associate literary variety with the work of history-writing? Drawing on theories of literary variety found in classical and medieval rhetoric, this book traces how British writers came to believe that varietas could help them construct comprehensive, continuous accounts of Britain's past. It shows how Latin prose historians, such as William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth, filled their texts with a diverse array of literary forms, which they carefully selected and ordered in accordance with their broader historiographical aims. The pronounced literary variety of these influential histories inspired some Middle English verse chroniclers, including Laȝamon and Robert Mannyng, to adopt similar principles in their vernacular poetry. By uncovering the rhetorical and historiographical theories beneath their literary variety, this book provides a new framework for interpreting the stylistic and organizational choices of medieval historians.
Author | : Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson |
Publisher | : Four Courts Press |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
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Language and History in Early Britain establishes the linguistic facts in the period running from the British speech of Roman times through to the 'Middle' stages of the functionally and psychologically distinct languages, Welsh, Cornish and Breton.
Author | : Jocelyn Wogan-Browne |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1903153476 |
Download Language and Culture in Medieval Britain Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Mark Faulkner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2022-07-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009033093 |
Download A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.
Author | : Jason Taliadoros |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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This book explores the legal and theological thought of Master Vacarius (c.1115/20 - c.1200), the renowned twelfth-century jurist. It focuses on this Italian master's four works, composed in the second half of the twelfth century, which deal with the resolution of conflict in law and theology. Vacarius is a paradox for scholars. They have found it difficult to reconcile his role as a legal teacher, notably through his textbook the Liber pauperum ('Book of the Poor'), which established a school of Roman law at Oxford, with his 'extra-legal' works on marriage, Christology and heretical theology. This study accounts for this paradox by exploring these three extra-legal treatises, composed in the 1160s and 1170s, in light of Vacarius' legal textbook. The author argues that Vacarius applies the legal method of the ius commune (European common law) to theological and sacramental debates. In this way, Vacarius represents a trend in medieval intellectual history, particular to the twelfth-century renaissance, which has been little appreciated to date - the hermeneutic of the 'lawyer-theologian'.