An Introduction To Middle English

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551118949

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An Introduction to Middle English by R.D. Fulk Pdf

An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474408462

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Introduction to Middle English by Simon Horobin Pdf

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614813);An Introduction to Middle English is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500. Middle English, the language of Chaucer, is discussed in relation to both earlier and later stages in the history of English, and in relation to other languages with which it came into contact.Key Featurespresents the historical and geographical contexts of Middle Englishexamines the evidence for Middle English; introduces the principal features of Middle English spelling, pronunciation, grammar and vocabularyincludes an introduction to Middle English textual studies; selected Middle English texts, both literary and non-literary; notes, glossaries and annotated bibliographies; and questions for review.Most other introductory books on Middle English focus on literary rather than linguistic matters; this book is designed to redress the balance, by providing students of English language with an up-to-date, authoritative survey which takes account of recent trends in historical linguistics."e;

Author : J. A. Burrow,Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118697351

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A Book of Middle English by J. A. Burrow,Thorlac Turville-Petre Pdf

This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition,introduces students to the wide range of literature written inEngland between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential MiddleEnglish textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance onpronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regionaldialects. Now includes extracts from ‘Pearl’ andChaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.

Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748673124

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Introduction to Middle English by Simon Horobin Pdf

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614813);An Introduction to Middle English is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500. Middle English, the language of Chaucer, is discussed in relation to both earlier and later stages in the history of English, and in relation to other languages with which it came into contact.Key Featurespresents the historical and geographical contexts of Middle Englishexamines the evidence for Middle English; introduces the principal features of Middle English spelling, pronunciation, grammar and vocabularyincludes an introduction to Middle English textual studies; selected Middle English texts, both literary and non-literary; notes, glossaries and annotated bibliographies; and questions for review.Most other introductory books on Middle English focus on literary rather than linguistic matters; this book is designed to redress the balance, by providing students of English language with an up-to-date, authoritative survey which takes account of recent trends in historical linguistics."e;

Author : Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Maidie Hilmo,Linda Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501779954

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Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton,Maidie Hilmo,Linda Olson Pdf

This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated book is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex—its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts also explores the function of illustrations in fashioning audience response to particular authors and their texts over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Linda Olson, and Maidie Hilmo—scholars at the forefront of the modern study of Middle English manuscripts—focus on the writers most often taught in Middle English courses, including Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Hoccleve, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe, highlighting the specific issues that shaped literary production in late medieval England. Among the topics they address are the rise of the English language, literacy, social conditions of authorship, early instances of the "Alliterative Revival," women and book production, nuns’ libraries, patronage, household books, religious and political trends, and attempts at revisionism and censorship. Inspired by the highly successful study of Latin manuscripts by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies (also published by Cornell), this book demonstrates how the field of Middle English manuscript studies, with its own unique literary and artistic environment, is changing modern approaches to the culture of the book.

Author : Charles Jones
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106016333681

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An Introduction to Middle English by Charles Jones Pdf

Author : J. A. Burrow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191037351

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Medieval Writers and their Work by J. A. Burrow Pdf

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J. A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the the field, most notably devoting a final chapter to the impact of historicism on medieval studies. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why.

Author : Carola Trips
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296276

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From OV to VO in Early Middle English by Carola Trips Pdf

This monograph answers the question of why English changed from an OV to a VO language on the assumption that this change is due to intensive language contact with Scandinavian. It shows for the first time that the English language was much more heavily influenced by Scandinavian than assumed before, i.e., northern Early Middle English texts clearly show Scandinavian syntactic patterns like stylistic fronting that can only be found today in the Modern Scandinavian languages. Thus, it sheds new light on the force of language contact in that it shows that a language can be heavily influenced through contact with another language in such a way that it affects deeper levels of language. It further gives an introduction to working with the Penn-Helsinki-Parsed Corpus of Middle English II (PPCMEII). It discusses the texts included in the corpus, it describes the format of the texts, and it explains how to search the corpus with the tool called Corpus Search. The book targets researchers in diachronic syntax, comparative syntax and in general linguists working in the field of generative syntax. It can further be used as an introduction to working with the PPCMEII.

Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426619

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Middle English Mouths by Katie L. Walter Pdf

First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199697298

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The Middle Ages by Miri Rubin Pdf

The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this Very Short Introduction Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles. Including stories of kingship and Christian salvation, agriculture and trade, Rubin demonstrates the remarkable nature and legacy of the Middle Ages.

Author : Robert Easting
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0859914232

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Visions of the Other World in Middle English by Robert Easting Pdf

This bibliography covers visions of Heaven and Hell - or, more usually, Purgatory and Earthly Paradise - in 19 medieval texts relating seven visions: the vision of St Paul, or the Eleven Pains of Hell; St Patrick's purgatory; the vision of Tundale; a revelation of purgatory; the revelation of the Monk of Eynsham; the vision of Fursey; and the vision of Edmund Leversedge.

Author : Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827928

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre by Richard Beadle,Alan J. Fletcher Pdf

The drama of the English Middle Ages is perennially popular with students and theatre audiences alike, and this is an updated edition of a book which has established itself as a standard guide to the field. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre, second edition continues to provide an authoritative introduction and an up-to-date, illustrated guide to the mystery cycles, morality drama and saints' plays which flourished from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. The book emphasises regional diversity in the period and engages with the literary and particularly the theatrical values of the plays. Existing chapters have been revised and updated where necessary, and there are three entirely new chapters, including one on the cultural significance of early drama. A thoroughly revised reference section includes a guide to scholarship and criticism, an enlarged classified bibliography and a chronological table.

Author : Jeremy J. Smith,Jeremy Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134292431

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Essentials of Early English by Jeremy J. Smith,Jeremy Smith Pdf

This is a completely revised and updated edition of a highly successful textbook. It provides a practical and highly accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English. Designed specifically as a handbook for students beginning the study of early English language, whether for linguistic or literary purposes, it presumes little or no prior knowledge of the history of English. Features of this second edition include: newly added Middle English and Early Modern English sample texts and accompanying notes a new section on historical methods web links and an updated annotated bibliography.

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048352

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An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer by Tison Pugh Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.

Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780745654768

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Middle English Literature by Christopher Cannon Pdf

This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.