Multilingualism in Early Medieval Britain

In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it. This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain. Each section centres around a key thematic topic and is illustrated through a series of memorable case studies that encapsulate the extent to which multilingualism appeared in every facet of life in early medieval Britain: religious and scholarly; political and military; economic and cultural; intellectual and artistic. The Element makes an overall argument for the dynamic extent of transcultural literary and linguistic culture in early medieval Britain before the arrival of the Normans.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lindy Brady, Lindy (Edge Hill University Brady, Brady Lindy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2023
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9781009467896
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0946789-6
• Anzahl Seiten: 75
• Serie: Elements in England in the Ear; Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
• Themen: Classical texts, Cornish, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Irish Gaelic, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Celtic languages, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Anglo-Saxon / Old English, Anglo-Saxon, c 1000 to c 1170 (Norman period)