A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
Language and Literature between Old and Middle English
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:28th Jul '22
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Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
This is the first book-length study of English writing in the period between Old and Middle English. For lecturers and students alike, it reveals exactly what happened to English in a period necessarily covered on introductory literary history courses and on courses in the history of the English language.A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.
'This book makes a field-changing contribution to scholarship and cannot be ignored by any-one working on the literary, cultural, social, or linguistic history of England's High Middle Ages. It is a formidable achievement.' Laura Ashe, The Review of English Studies
ISBN: 9781316516096
Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 22mm
Weight: 600g
290 pages