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Language and Community in Early England

- Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

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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 8th-13th centuries, to the 16th-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this period in the history of English can only be understood if we loosen insistence on a sharp divide between Old and Middle English and place the textuality in the framework of a multilingual matrix. It argues that the tension of linguistic distance provides necessary energy for the community-building activities of annotation and glossing, translation, compilation, and other uses of texts and manuscripts.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138676619
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 202
  • Udgivet:
  • 5. maj 2017
  • Størrelse:
  • 156x235x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 426 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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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 8th-13th centuries, to the 16th-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this period in the history of English can only be understood if we loosen insistence on a sharp divide between Old and Middle English and place the textuality in the framework of a multilingual matrix. It argues that the tension of linguistic distance provides necessary energy for the community-building activities of annotation and glossing, translation, compilation, and other uses of texts and manuscripts.

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