Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain

Lindy Brady (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

86 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46789-6 (ISBN)

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In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it. This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain. Each section centres around a key thematic topic and is illustrated through a series of memorable case studies that encapsulate the extent to which multilingualism appeared in every facet of life in early medieval Britain: religious and scholarly; political and military; economic and cultural; intellectual and artistic. The Element makes an overall argument for the dynamic extent of transcultural literary and linguistic culture in early medieval Britain before the arrival of the Normans.

Introduction: multilingualism in early medieval Britain; 1. Manuscripts and multilingual texts; 2. Saints and scholars; 3. Kings and captives; 4. Travellers and traders; 5. Conclusion: multilingual Britain after the Norman conquest of England; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 235 mm
Gewicht	270 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-009-46789-1 / 1009467891
ISBN-13	978-1-009-46789-6 / 9781009467896
Zustand	Neuware