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Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

Language and Community in Early England: Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature

Butler, Emily

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 1138676616
ISBN13: 9781138676619
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 5 2017
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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