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Rewriting English Literary History 1042–1215
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This article identified three key aspects of post-Conquest literary culture which have been neglected because they chafe against the conventional paradigms of literary history, with its expectation of a literature national, monolingual and constantly original.Abstract:
The last 10 years have seen a swathe of revisionary scholarship on the afterlife of Old English texts in the 12th century. This article places this research beside work on the earliest Middle English texts and contemporary writing in Latin and French to suggest that the time is now ripe for a new, synthetic literary history of the period. In particular, the article identifies three key aspects of post-Conquest literary culture which have been neglected because they chafe against the conventional paradigms of literary history, with its expectation of a literature national, monolingual and constantly original. The 12th-century norms, by contrast, were regionalism, multilingualism, and the habitual recycling of older texts. Medievalists must insist these differences should inform wider discussions about the form and purpose of literary history in the 21st century.read more
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The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain
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An edition of the Conduct of Life based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction
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Code-switching and vernacular support: an early Middle English case study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and analyse the multilingual practices evinced in London, British Library, MS Stowe 34, containing one instructional prose text from c. 1200, Vices and Virtues, which contains numerous instances of code-switching into Latin and also reiteration of the Latin content in English.
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English Alliterative Verse : Poetic Tradition and Literary History
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Norse-derived vocabulary in late old English texts: Wulfstan’s works, a case study. 3rd edition
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023) and analyze their relations with their native synonyms, both from a semantic and a stylistic point of view, and their inclusion in the word-formation processes to which Wulfston submitted his vocabulary, native and borrowed alike.
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Censorship and cultural change in late-medieval England : vernacular theology, the Oxford translation debate and Arundel's constitutions of 1409
TL;DR: The authors prend le cas particulier de la theologie redigee en langue vernaculaire : il s'agit de cerner la nature du debat que l'Universite d'Oxford engagea sur les problemes de traduction, notamment en ce qui concerne les Constitutions d'Arundel datant de 1409.
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The origin of Standard Old English and Æthelwold's school at Winchester
TL;DR: The authors examined the rareness before the end of the tenth century of texts in dialects other than West Saxon and their almost complete absence after this time, a state of affairs for which various explanations might be found, historical factors among others.
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Norse-derived vocabulary in late Old English texts: Wulfstan's works, a case study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the Norse-derived vocabulary in the works of Archbishop Wulfstan II of York (d. 1023) and analyze their relations with their native synonyms, both from a semantic and a stylistic point of view, and their inclusion in the word-formation processes to which Wulfston submitted his vocabulary, native and borrowed alike.
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Winchester vocabulary and standard Old English: the vernacular in late Anglo-Saxon England
TL;DR: The authors retrace les origine du vieil anglais standard and analyse les relations entre la montee du nouvel ordre politique and la forme d'anglais, which a ete preservee dans les manuscrits anglois de la fin du 10 e au debut du 12 e siecle.
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The Uses of Literary History
TL;DR: The use of evidence, anachronism, the dialectic of texts and contexts, particularism and the resistance to reductive understanding, the construction of identities, memory, and the endurance of the past are discussed in this article.