Language and community in early england: imagining distance in medieval literature
Auteur :
Butler, Emily
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367667856
Date de publication :
30 sept. 2020
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
390 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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 o