Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
Published on 6. April 2000
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-85991-563-2 (ISBN)
Description
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain.
The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all the articles collected here from leading international experts in their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history, sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work done on the bridges of the river Thames.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER, WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A. TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT
Professor D.A. TROTTER is Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The languages of later medieval Britain are here seen as no longerseparate or separable, but as needing to be treated and studied together to discover the linguistic reality of medieval Britain and make a meaningful assessment ofthe relationship between the languages, and the role, status, function or subsequent history of any of them. This theme emerges from all the articles collected here from leading international experts in their fields, dealing withlaw, language, Welsh history, sociolinguistics and historical lexicography. The documents and texts studied include a Vatican register of miracles in fourteenth-century Hereford, medical treatises, municipal records from York, teaching manuals, gild registers, and an account of work done on the bridges of the river Thames.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, BEGON CRESPO GARCIA, TONY HUNT, LUIS IGLESIAS-RABADE, LISA JEFFERSON, ANDRES M. KRISTOL, FRANKWALTMOHREN, MICHAEL RICHTER, WILLIAM ROTHWELL, HERBERT SCHENDL, LLINOS BEVERLEY SMITH, D.A. TROTTER, EDMUIND WEINER, LAURA WRIGHT
Professor D.A. TROTTER is Professor of French and Head of Department of European Languages at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Reviews / Votes
The papers take three general approaches to their subject matter, emphasizing the historical background of medieval language contact, code swuitching, or the lexicographical consequences of multilingualism. At their best these papers apply contemporary linguistic analyses to historical events in ways that illuminate both, and that material advance understanding of medieval multilingualism. * SPECULUM *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 b/w, 1 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85991-563-2 (9780859915632)
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Laura Wright is a Reader in English Language at the University of Cambridge, where she works on the history of English. LISA JEFFERSON holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. She is the editor of Wardens' Accounts and Court Minute Books of the Goldsmiths' Mistery of London, 1334-1446 (Boydell, 2003) and The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London. An Edition and Translation (Ashgate/now Routledge, 2009).
Content
- D A Trotter
The Welsh and English languages in late-medieval Wales - Llinos Beverley Smith
Historical background of multilingualism and its impact on English - Begona Crespo Garcia
L'intellectuel 'anglo-normand' face a la pluralite des langues: le temoignage implicite du ms. Oxford, Magdalen 188 - Andres M Kristol
Collecting miracles along the Anglo-Welsh border in the early fourteenth century - Michael Richter
The languages of the law in later medieval England - Paul A Brand
Linguistic aspects of code-switching in medieval English texts - Herbert Schendl
French phrasal power in late Middle English. Some evidence concerning the verb nime(n)/take(n) - Luis Iglesias Rabade
Code-switching in medical texts - Tony Hunt
Bills, accounts, inventories: everyday trilingual activities in the business world of later medieval England - Laura Wright
One-fold lexicography for a manifold problem? - Frankwalt Mohren
Medieval multilingualism and the revision of the OED - E S C Weiner
The language and vocabulary of the fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century records of the Goldsmiths' Company - Lisa Jefferson
Aspects of lexical and morphosyntactical mixing in the languages of medieval England - William Rothwell
The Welsh and English languages in late-medieval Wales - Llinos Beverley Smith
Historical background of multilingualism and its impact on English - Begona Crespo Garcia
L'intellectuel 'anglo-normand' face a la pluralite des langues: le temoignage implicite du ms. Oxford, Magdalen 188 - Andres M Kristol
Collecting miracles along the Anglo-Welsh border in the early fourteenth century - Michael Richter
The languages of the law in later medieval England - Paul A Brand
Linguistic aspects of code-switching in medieval English texts - Herbert Schendl
French phrasal power in late Middle English. Some evidence concerning the verb nime(n)/take(n) - Luis Iglesias Rabade
Code-switching in medical texts - Tony Hunt
Bills, accounts, inventories: everyday trilingual activities in the business world of later medieval England - Laura Wright
One-fold lexicography for a manifold problem? - Frankwalt Mohren
Medieval multilingualism and the revision of the OED - E S C Weiner
The language and vocabulary of the fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century records of the Goldsmiths' Company - Lisa Jefferson
Aspects of lexical and morphosyntactical mixing in the languages of medieval England - William Rothwell