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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Tapa blanda

Roberts, Jane

 
9781781382660: Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1781382662 ISBN 13: 9781781382660
Editorial: Liverpool University Press, 2015

Sinopsis

The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual examples. The reader is introduced gradually to vocabulary suitable for the description of script through a range of plates, for example, Caedmon’s Hymn (the earliest extant English poem); the opening of an Exeter Book poem; the Lindisfarne Gospels; the opening page of King Alfred’s first translation; an illustrated version of the story of Abraham and Isaac; passages from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; early (Laȝamon) and late tellings of the story of Arthur (Malory); contrasting manuscripts of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde; Langland; York plays. Each plate is reproduced full size where possible, accompanied by a full transcript, commentary and notes.

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Jane Roberts MRIA, FSA, FEA is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of London, where she is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies. She is the author of A Guide to Scripts used in English Writings up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, Liverpool University Press, 2015) and co-edited the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2009).

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Liverpool University Press
Año de publicación
2015
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1781382662
ISBN 13 
9781781382660
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Número de páginas
328
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