Author: Rodrigo Pérez LoridoPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631817957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Of Ye Olde Englisch Langage and Textes: New Perspectives on Old and Middle English Language and Literature
Author: Rodrigo Pérez LoridoPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783631817957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Long Story Short: An Interactive Journey through the History of English
Author: Paula Rodríguez AbruñeirasPublisher: Universitat de València
ISBN: 8491348417
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This textbook intends to do a clear, informal review of the history of the English language. Although the main focus is not to provide a thorough social description of the different periods in which the history of English is divided, we want to make it clear that language has changed because it is used by society, and therefore one cannot be understood without the other.
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Adventure of English
Author: Melvyn BraggPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1611450071
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
A Thesaurus of Old English: Introduction and thesaurus
Author: Jane RobertsPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042015739
Category : English languaage
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics
Author: Merja KytöPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316472914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.
International Medieval Bibliography
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Northern memories and the English Middle Ages
Author: Tim William MachanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526145375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and fundamentally monarchical, the Nordic countries constituted a politically kindred spirit in contrast with France, Italy and Spain. Along with the so-called Celtic fringe and overseas colonies, Scandinavia became one of the external reference points for the forging of the United Kingdom. Subject to the continual refashioning of memory, the region became at once an image of Britain’s noble past and an affirmation of its current global status, rendering trips there rides on a time machine.
Medieval Herbal Remedies
Author: Anne Van ArsdallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Introduction to Old English
Author: Peter S. BakerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047065984X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care