Multilingualism in Medieval Britain (c. 1066-1520). Sources and Analysis

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Judith Jefferson, Ad Putter (eds). Pages: xxiv + 292 p. Illustrations:2 b/w, 4 tables b/w. Language(s):English, French, Latin. Publication Year:2013. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-54250-8. Hardback --- SUMMARY This book is devoted to the study of multilingual Britain in the later medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to John Skelton. It brings together experts from different disciplines history, linguistics, and literature - in a joint effort to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the Middle Ages. Each author focuses on one specific text or text type, and demonstrates by example what careful analysis can reveal about the nature of medieval multilingualism and about medieval attitudes to the different living languages of later medieval Britain. There are chapters on charters, sermons, religious prose, glossaries, manorial records, biblical translations, chronicles, and the macaronic poetry of William Langland and John Skelton. By addressing the full range of languages spoken and written in later medieval Britain (Latin, French, Old Norse, Welsh, Cornish, English, Dutch, and Hebrew), this collection reveals the linguistic situation of the period in its true diversity and shows the resourcefulness of medieval people when faced with the need to communicate. For medieval writers and readers, the ability to move between languages opened up a wealth of possibilities: possibilities for subtle changes of register, for counterpoint, for linguistic playfulness, and, perhaps most importantly, for texts which extend a particular challenge to the reader to engage with them. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction JUDITH A. JEFFERSON AND AD PUTTER Addressing Different Language Groups: Charters from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries RICHARD SHARPE Tor for to telle : Words Derived from Old Norse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight RICHARD DANCE Multilingualism and the Vocabularium Cornicum ALDERIK H. BLOM Externarum linguarum excellens: The Rhetoric and Reality of the Languages of Gruffudd ap Cynan, Ruler of Gwynedd PAUL RUSSELL Hebrew, Latin, French, English: Multilingualism in Jewish‑Christian Encounters EVA DE VISSCHER Language-Mixing in Medieval Latin Documents: Vernacular Articles and Nouns RICHARD INGHAM Mixed-Language Accounts as Sources for Linguistic Analysis LAURA WRIGHT Written Versus Spoken Macaronic Discourse in Late Medieval England: The View from a Pulpit ALAN J. FLETCHER Code-Switching in Late Medieval Macaronic Sermons HERBERT SCHENDL What Voice is that Language/What Language is that Voice? Multilingualism and Identity in a Medieval Letter-Treatise JOCELYN WOGAN -BROWNE Scribal Responses to Latin in the Manuscripts of the B‑Version of Piers Plowman JUDITH A. JEFFERSON Divers of Language : The Macaronic Glossing of Skelton s Speke Parrot JANE GRIFFITHS Narrating the Battle of Hastings: Multilingual Britain and the Monolingualism of William of Malmesbury HARUKO MOMMA And she answered in hir Language : Aspects of Multilingualism in the Auchinleck Manuscript THEA SUMMERFIELD Women of oure tunge cunne bettir reede and vnderstonde this langage : Women and Vernacular Translation in Later Medieval England ELIZABETH DEARNLEY Lewd Language: English and its Others in Late Medieval Versions of Scripture CATHY HUME. Seller Inventory # ca5247

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