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Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Mary Swan
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Ten essays on the study of Old English texts in the twelfth century, first published in 2000.
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Mark Faulkner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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 t
The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Sara Harris
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain's past.
The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past
Language: en
Pages: 438
Authors: Martin Brett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; a
Multilingual Practices in Language History
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Päivi Pahta
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Texts of the past were often not monolingual but were produced by and for people with bi- or multilingual repertoires; the communicative practices witnessed in