Hastings, 1066 - Words We'd Wield If We'd Won
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Hastings, 1066 - Words We'd Wield If We'd Won by David Cowley
After 1066, a Norman elite ensured that English lost much of its standing as an official tongue. Over the next 300 or so years many original English words were ousted by French ones. The effect was especially strong in fields such as law, government, and military terminology, changing English expression - and even how its speakers thought, and think today - in ways that are hard to fathom. Here, in a user-friendly phrase-book format, are some of those original, authentic English words, put in today's spelling to show how they'd look if there'd indeed been 'a breme English seyer at the Gouth of Hastings' a famous English victory at the Battle of Hastings) in 1066 Food for thought for everyone, from the linguistic historian to the cultural un-normaniser. William Barnes would be delighted on both counts. Clive Upton, Professor of Modern English Language, University of Leeds
Dr Birger Stichelbaut is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Historical and Archaeological Aerial Photography - a collaborative initiative between Ghent University, the In Flanders Fields Museum and the Province of West-Flanders - and is engaged with aerial photography, archaeology and the conflict landscape of the First World War. He is the author of the book In Flanders Fields: The Great War seen from the air (published in English, French and Dutch) and of several papers dealing with historical aerial photography and the archaeology of the Great War. David Cowley is an archaeologist who manages the aerial reconnaissance programme at Historic Environment Scotland. He has published extensively on applications of historic aerial photographs, remote sensing for archaeology and aerial archaeology. His research is framed within landscape archaeology and includes conflict archaeology, methodology and sources. He is also undertaking part-time doctoral research at Ghent University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780755213764 |
| ISBN 10 | 0755213769 |
| Title | Hastings, 1066 - Words We'd Wield If We'd Won |
| Author | David Cowley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Generation Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 52 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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