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The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

Simon Horobin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:1st May '03

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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer's linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer's own language and his linguistic environment. This book considershow scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer's language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.

[An] excellent and accessible monograph.... Essential reading for anyone interested in rewriting the history of English. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY *
Detailed and meticulously researched * MEDIUM AEVUM *
Essential reading for those specializing in either the history of English or Chaucer's language. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
Valuable and well-researched. * SPECULUM *

ISBN: 9780859917803

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 450g

192 pages