This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today.
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"The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet…
Word-hoard: an introd. to Old Engl. vocabulary
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"Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of the English literary tradition. Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650-1100 focuses on the period before…
A descriptive syntax of the Ormulum
by Palmatier, Robert A., (Robert Allen)
fromJanua linguarum
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"Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1750), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary socie…
The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as 'complex, ' 'sophisticated, ' 'extraordinaril…
