The Vulgar Tongue - Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

Explores the history of European vernacularity from the building of nations, empires, or ethnic communities to the politics of gender, class, or religion.

About the author

Nicholas Watson is a Professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is the author of Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (1991) and co-editor of The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280–1520 (Penn State, 1999).Fiona Somerset is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England (1998).

Summary

These essays offer new vistas on the idea of the vernacular in contexts as diverse as Ramon Llull's prefiguration of universal grammar, the orthography of Early Middle English, the struggle for linguistic purity in Early Modern Dutch, and the construction of standard Serbian and Romanian in the waning decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Somerset
• Assisted by: Fiona Somerset (Editor), Somerset Fiona (Editor), Nicholas Watson (Editor), Watson Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2003
• EAN: 9780271023106
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02310-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Usage & grammar guides, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval