The politics of language : Byrhtferth, Ælfric, and the multilingual identity of the Benedictine reform / Rebecca Stephenson.
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TextSeries: Toronto Anglo-Saxon seriesPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type: - text
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- Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 -- Language
- Byrhtferth, approximately 970- -- Language
- Benedictines -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500
- Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984
- Byrhtferth, approximately 970-
- Benedictines
- Languages in contact -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500
- Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 449-1066 (Période anglo-saxonne)
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Language and languages
- Languages in contact
- Literacy
- England
- England -- Winchester
- Great Britain
- To 1500
- 942.01/7 23
- BR754.A33 S74 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the literary context of the monastic reform -- Pedagogy of the Enchiridion : layout and languages -- Scapegoating the secular clergy : the hermeneutic style as a form of monastic self-definition -- The politics of English : computus, translation, and monastic self-definition -- The politics of Ælfric's prefaces -- Unravelling the hermeneutic style : Ælfric's latin epitomes and English translations.
Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style.
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