The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain by Sara Harris
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.-
The Book of Memory
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Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England
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The Craft of Thought
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The Medieval Manuscript Book
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Old Icelandic Literature and Society
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Living Death in Medieval French and English Literature
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London Literature, 13001380
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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
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Animals, Speech and Reason in the Middle Ages
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The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages
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A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
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Navigating Landmarks of Identity in Pre-Conquest English Literature
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Logical Fictions in Medieval Literature and Philosophy
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The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland
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Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority
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Chaucer and the Subversion of Form
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Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England
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Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing
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The European Book in the Twelfth Century
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Women and Marriage in German Medieval Romance
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The Wycliffite Heresy
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'Piers Plowman' and the Medieval Discourse of Desire
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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
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Chaucer's Scribes
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Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages
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Dante and the Franciscans
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Writing to the King
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Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature
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Romance and History
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Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature
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Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy
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Imagining Medieval English
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Landscape in Middle English Romance
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Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales
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John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
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The Making of Chaucer's English
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Women Readers in the Middle Ages
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Writing Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
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Fictions of Identity in Medieval France
Harris, Sara: - Sara Harris is a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781316631874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1316631877 |
| Title | The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain |
| Author | Sara Harris |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medieval Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-07-11 |
| Number of pages | 293 |
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