The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England - Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image.

List of contents

The Anglo-Saxonists and Their Books: Print, Manuscript, and the Circulation of Scholarship
The AbcedariumGlossary: Sources and Methods of Nowell's Old English Lexicography
Inkhorns, Orthographers, and Antiquaries: Standardized English and the Dawn of Anglo-Saxon Studies
Somewhere in Time: The Abcedarium Place-Name Index
Putting the Past in Place: Lambarde's Alphabetical Description and Perambulation of Kent
Images and Imaginings of England
"The Saxons, our Ancestors": Ancient Law and Old English Laws
Conclusion: The Invention of Anglo-Saxon English
Bibliography

About the author

Rebecca Brackmann

Summary

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Brackmann, Rebecca (Author) Brackmann
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2012
• EAN: 9781843843184
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-318-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval