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The politics of language : Byrhtferth, lfric, and the multilingual identity of the Benedictine reform
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Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a s...
Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style.
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- Creator
- Rebecca Stephenson
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- English
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- Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2015
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9781442624153, 1442624159, 9781442650589
- OCLC
- on1044383464
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Literary Context of the Monastic Reform -- Part One -- Part Two -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects
- Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 -- Language.
- Byrhtferth, approximately 970- -- Language.
- Benedictines -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500.
- Languages in contact -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500.
- Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.