A Book of Middle English

Thorlac Turville-Petre, J. A. Burrow (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2020 | 4th Edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-61927-7 (ISBN)

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The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key middle English texts - including a new extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love - with helpful notes to direct students to key points within the text. Keeping in mind adopter feedback, this new edition includes a new model translation section with a student workbook and model exercise for classroom use. This new chapter will include sections on 'false friend' words, untranslatable idioms and notes on translating both poetry and prose. The text and references will be fully updated throughout and a foreword dedicated to the late J. A. Burrow will be included.

THORLAC TURVILLE-PETRE is Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books including The Alliterative Revival, England the Nation, and Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry. His Reading Middle English Literature is designed as a companion to this book.

J. A. BURROW was Emeritus Professor at Bristol University, UK, a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society. He was the author of many classic studies, including A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Medieval Writers and their Work, and The Ages of Man.

List of Illustrations ... ix
Preface to the Third Edition ... xi
Abbreviations ... xii

PART ONE
1 Introducing Middle English ... 3
1.1 Period ... 3
1.1.1 From Old to Middle English ... 3
1.1.2 From Middle to Modern English ... 4
1.2 Varieties of Middle English ... 5
1.2.1 Regional Dialects ... 5
1.2.2 Early and Late Middle English ... 8
1.2.3 Spelling ... 8
2 Pronouncing Middle English ... 9
2.1 Introduction ... 9
2.2 Vowels ... 10
2.2.1 Long Vowels ... 10
2.2.2 Short Vowels ... 11
2.2.3 Unstressed Final -e ... 11
2.2.4 Diphthongs ... 12
2.3 Consonants ... 12
2.4 Stress ... 13
3 Vocabulary ... 14
3.1 Introduction ... 14
3.2 Scandinavian ... 14
3.3 English, French and Latin ... 15
3.4 Latin Loan-Words ... 17
3.5 French Loan-Words ... 18
4 Inflexions ... 19
4.1 Introduction ... 19
4.1.1 Inflexional System ... 19
4.1.2 Loss of Inflexional Endings ... 19
4.2 Nouns ... 20
4.2.1 Introduction .... 20
4.2.2 Noun Inflexions: Early Southern Texts .... 21
4.2.3 Developments in Noun Inflexions ... 22
4.2.4 Genitive Singular Without Ending ... 23
4.2.5 Unchanged Plurals ... 23
4.2.6 Mutated Plurals ... 23
4.3 Pronouns and Articles ... 24
4.3.1 Forms of the Personal Pronouns ... 24
4.3.2 First and Second Person Pronouns ... 24
4.3.3 Third Person Pronouns: Masculine and Neuter Singular ... 25
4.3.4 Third Person Pronouns: Feminine Singular ... 25
4.3.5 Third Person Pronouns: Plural ... 26
4.3.6 Definite Article ... 26
4.3.7 Demonstratives ... 27
4.3.8 Indefinite Article ... 27
4.4 Adjectives and Adverbs ... 27
4.4.1 Definite and Indefinite Inflexions ... 27
4.4.2 Inflexions for Case ... 28
4.4.3 Comparison of Adjectives ... 29
4.4.4 Comparison of Adverbs ... 29
4.5 Verbs ... 30
4.5.1 Introduction ... 30
4.5.2 Present Tense ... 30
4.5.3 Past Tense and Past Participle ... 32
4.5.4 Past of Weak Verbs ... 32
4.5.5 Verbs 'Have' and 'Say' ... 33
4.5.6 Past of Strong Verbs ... 34
4.5.7 Irregular Verbs ... 35
4.5.8 Verb 'To Be' ... 36
5 Syntax ... 38
5.1 Gender ... 38
5.2 Number ... 38
5.3 of Cases ... 39
5.3.1 Nominative and Accusative ... 39
5.3.2 Genitive ... 39
5.3.3 Dative ... 40
5.4 Pronouns and Articles ... 41
5.4.1 Þou and ʒ e ... 41
5.4.2 Non-expression of Personal Pronouns ... 41
5.4.3 Man ... 42
5.4.4 Self ... 42
5.4.5 Reflexive Pronouns ... 42
5.4.6 Relative Pronouns ... 43
5.4.7 Articles ... 44
5.5 Adjectives and Adverbs ... 44
5.5.1 Position ... 44
5.5.2 Comparatives and Superlatives ... 44
5.5.3 Adjectives as Nouns ... 45
5.6 Verbs ... 45
5.6.1 of Present Tense ... 45
5.6.2 of Past Tense ... 45
5.6.3 Auxiliaries of the Past ... 46
5.6.4 Auxiliaries of the Future: shall and will ... 46
5.6.5 Infinitive ... 47
5.6.6 Subjunctive ... 48
5.6.7 Imperative ... 50
5.6.8 Impersonal Verbs ... 50
5.6.9 Verbs of Motion ... 51
5.6.10 Passive ... 51
5.7 Negation ... 52
5.8 Questions ... 52
5.9 Word-Order ... 53
5.9.1 Inversion ... 53
5.9.2 Object ... 54
5.9.3 Prepositions ... 54
5.9.4 Relative Clauses ... 54
5.9.5 Adverbial Phrases ... 54
5.9.6 Verb in Final Position ... 55
5.10 Recapitulation and Anticipation ... 55
6 Metre ... 56
6.1 Introduction ... 56
6.2 Rhymed Verse ... 56
6.3 Alliterative Verse ... 59
6.4 Laʒamon's Brut ... 61
7 From Manuscript to Printed Text ... 62
8 Translating Middle English
9 Select Bibliography ... 65
9.1 Bibliographies and Indexes ... 65
9.2 Language Studies ... 65
9.3 General Studies of the Literature ... 67
9.4 Studies of Particular Genres ... 69
9.5 Historical and Social Studies ... 70

PART TWO: PROSE AND VERSE TEXTS
Note on Treatment of Texts ... 74
1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137 75
2 The Owl and the Nightingale ... 81
3 Laʒamon: Brut ... 96
4 Ancrene Wisse ... 106
5 Sir Orfeo ... 112
6 The Cloud of Unknowing ... 132
7 William Langland: Piers Plowman ... 141
8 Patience ... 162
9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ... 182
10 Pearl ... 202
11 St Erkenwald ... 221
12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk ... 235
13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis ... 243
14 Lyrics ... 255
15 The York Play of the Crucifixion ... 272
16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls ... 283
17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde ... 309
18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales ... 327
18a The Reeve's Tale ... 328
18b The Prioress's Tale ... 346
19 Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love

Textual Notes ... 356
Glossary ... 363
List of Illustrations
The dialects of Middle English ... 7
Dot maps of THEM: 'th-' type and 'h-' type ... 16
Lines from St Erkenwald (MS Harley 2250) ... 62
A page from Confessio Amantis (MS Fairfax 3) ... 245

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2020
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	682 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-119-61927-0 / 1119619270
ISBN-13	978-1-119-61927-7 / 9781119619277
Zustand	Neuware