Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Approaching Twelfth-Century English-Language Texts; Part II. The Affordances of English: 3. English in the Linguistic Ecology of the Long Twelfth Century; 4. English as a Language of Documentary Record; 5. English as a Language for Writing History; 6. English as a Language for Sermon Writing; 7. Conclusion.
Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.
Mark Faulkner is Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where he is Director of the M. Phil in Medieval Studies. He is the author of the entry on Medieval Manuscripts for Oxford Bibliographies Online, and the co-author of the chapter on English in the Oxford Handbook of Language Contact.
'This book makes a field-changing contribution to scholarship and
cannot be ignored by any-one working on the literary, cultural,
social, or linguistic history of England's High Middle Ages. It is
a formidable achievement.' Laura Ashe, The Review of English
Studies
'… an engaging and erudite attempt to re-configure the history of
English language and literature in the years following the Norman
Conquest and before the emergence of the chief literary writers in
English of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. … The book sets
out [its] case in engaging and scholarly fashion; it may change the
way the history of English is understood.' Paul Cavill, The
Glass
'… an insightful piece of research which revisits one of the most
promising, and yet at the same time one of the most neglected
periods in the history of English language and writing.' Paulina
Zagorska, Linguistica Silesiana
'Original, meticulously researched, and well-written … the New
Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century is far and away the
best study of the period to date. … Any future work on the period
will need to begin with this important book.' Tim William Machan,
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
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