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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) - Softcover

Jane Roberts

 
9781781382660: Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781382662 ISBN 13: 9781781382660
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual examples. The reader is introduced gradually to vocabulary suitable for the description of script through a range of plates, for example, Caedmon's Hymn (the earliest extant English poem); the opening of an Exeter Book poem; the Lindisfarne Gospels; the opening page of King Alfred's first translation; an illustrated version of the story of Abraham and Isaac; passages from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; early (Layamon) and late tellings of the story of Arthur (Malory); contrasting manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; Langland; York plays. Each plate is reproduced full size where possible, accompanied by a full transcript, commentary and notes.

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About the Author

Jane Roberts is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Language & Literature at King's College London

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1781382662
ISBN 13 
9781781382660
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328