Liverpool University Press, 2008. — 155 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). With the changing needs of today's students in mind, the editors produced a complete prose translation of the four poems - the best known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The near-literal translations are intended to facilitate understanding of the four poems - to lead readers to,...
De Gruyter, 2017. — x + 310 p. The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer),...
Wiley Blackwell, 1970. — 128 p. — ISBN: 0631076808. Middle English is not a uniform language. Texts from the 11th and 12th centuries still have many forms proper to the IOE standard language, mixed with spellings reflecting changes with had occurred in the meantime. Later, individual scribes tried to represent their own dialects, using as a basis the sound-values of the letters...
3rd Edition. — Blackwell, 2005. — 433 p. This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. It is a new, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. It introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar,...
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. — 230 p. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature). — ISBN10: 3631724810, 13 978-3631724811. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix «be-» with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best established...
Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015. — 259 p. — (Studies in English medieval language and literature 47). — ISBN: 3631655150. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Conference of Middle English, held in Spain at the University of Murcia in 2013. The contributions embrace a variety of research topics and approaches, with a particular interest in...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1996. — 284 p. — ISBN: 9783110149906. A survey of previous research. The data-material and method. Aspects of a taxonomy of Middle English derivational suffixes. Systematic aspects of Middle English derivation: in search of a descriptive-explanatory framework. Abstract noun suffixes. Concrete (agent) noun suffixes. Adjectival suffixes. Verbal suffixes....
Brill, 1991. — xvi, 544 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts 1). The late Middle English Weye of Paradys and its French source La Voie de Paradis use the theme of the allegorical journey to Paradise. Essentially they are popular guides to confession, adaptations for the layman of more specialized works in Latin such as Raymond of Pennaforte's Summa de Poenitentia....
Ellis Roger (ed.). — University of Exeter Press, 2008. — 304 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies LUP). Thomas Hoccleve (1368-426) was one of Chaucer's first disciples and is represented in this book by a selection of his works, newly edited from his own copies and fully annotated. It provides students and other readers new to his work with a very fair indication of his...
Edinburgh University Press, 2002. — 191 p. — ISBN 10: 0748614818 The book is designed as a linguistic introduction to Middle English for undergraduate students. It features chapters on spellings and pronunciations of Middle English, the lexicon and grammar. Each chapter ends in exercises. We have attempted to make the book a bridge between elementary surveys of the kind to be...
York Medieval Press, 2014. — 362 p. — (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles 6). This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known texts and...
2nd edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 221 p. The English language has changed dramatically over the past 500 years, making it increasingly difficult for students to read Chaucer's works. Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge or familiarity with Middle English, Simon Horobin introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original,...
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. — 250 p. Prologue The sources Spellings and sounds Noun morphology and syntax Verb morphology and syntax Middle English dialects
Translated and revised by Eugene Joseph Crook. — The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1974. — xxxiv, 331 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica, 218). — ISBN 9789027933027. Translator’s Preface Foreword to the first edition Foreword to the second edition List of dialectal maps List of abbreviations The development up to the fourteenth century: the Germanic element Tonic vowels Atonic...
London; New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated, 2005. — 255 p. his Glossary is designed as a companion to William Langland's dream vision poem, Piers Plowman, widely regarded as the greatest literary work in Middle English preceding Chaucer. It glosses and explains over 5000 English words, and foreign words used as if English, in the A, B and C texts...
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. — 313 p. — (Middle English Texts). Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived in the royal burgh of Dunfermline and is a distinctive voice in the Northern Renaissance at a time when the culture was on a cusp...
Calabrese Michael (ed.). — Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. — 210 p. Passionate about trying to create social justice in a time of crisis after the Black Plague, William Langland spent his entire life working on Piers Plowman, an epic study of the human quest for truth, justice, and community. The "A Version," the first and shortest of the three...
De Gruyter, 1973. — 261 p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica 130). The Katherine Group has been established for some time as an important text in the historical study of English language and literature. It is one of the earliest and certainly most extensive examples of Early Middle English prose. In addition, it has textual connections with the Ancrene Riwle, that masterpiece...
Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 234 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6):A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This collection of unique poems is significant for its...
Yoshikawa Naoë Kukita, Mouron Anne, Atherton Mark (eds.). — Liverpool University Press, 2022. — 656 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298). The original Liber, compiled at the convent of Helfta in Saxony, presents...
3 стр. (Автор и выходные данные не указаны). Дисциплина - История языка. Middle English language. Local dialects which developed in England during the Old English period, continued to develop during the Middle English period Northern dialects. Central, or Midland dialects. Southern dialects.
Peter Lang, 2022. — 244 p. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 62). This monograph examines three aesthetic emotions in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints'. Drawing on recent research on emotional communities, this research combines methods from Cognitive Sciences and other studies on early Medieval English language and literature in order to explore Ælfric's usage...
Peter Lang, 2021. — 278 p. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 60). This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style. Using different methods from computational and cognitive linguistics, this...
Oxford University Press. 2014. — 290 pages. — (Oxford Studies in the History of English). — ISBN10: 0199947155; ISBN13: 978-0199947157 Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. In this book,...
Brepols, 2020. — 296 p. — (Textes Vernaculaires du Moyen Age 24). The Pore Caitif is an anonymous late fourteenth-century manual of devotion and religious instruction destined for a lay readership. The text, in its various forms, circulated widely and was evidently very popular, as the fifty of so extant manuscripts and fragments readily attest. Of them, no fewer that...
John Benjamins, 2016. — ix, 702 pages. — ISBN: 978-90-272-6638-5. For a good orientation into the history of English grammar, several books are indispensable. One of those is Mustanoja’s A Middle English Syntax. However, for a long time this work was not readily available; the present edition changes that. This is a fac simile reprint from the 1960 publication which appeared as...
Brepols, 2024. — 176 p. — (Textes Vernaculaires du Moyen Age 34). This Modern English translation will serve both as an in-depth companion to Moreau-Guibert’s recently published edition and as an accessible and up-to-date introduction to The Pore Caitif, bringing this popular and significant text to a much wider readership than previously has been the case and, as editions and...
Burrow John, Turville-Petre Thorlac (eds.). — Raleigh, North Carolina: Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts, 2018. — 388 p. — (Piers Plowman Electronic Archive in Print 1). This edition, the first of its kind in Piers Plowman studies, aims to establish the archetypal text of the B-version of the poem, the ancestor of all extant manuscripts. The editors claim...
Краткий и емкий материал по теме Properties of Middle English Grammar. В нем рассматриваются следующие пункты: Phonology. Morphology. Syntax. Semantics. Principle Features of the Middle English Dialects.
New York: Oxford University Press; Early English Text Society, 2001. — 457 p. — (Early English Text Society 316). The fullest version in English (surviving in a single fifteenth-century manuscript) of the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman romance by Hue de Rotelande. The three English versions testify to the story's popularity. Ipomadon A, the version edited here, is a tail-rhyme...
Alakas Brandon, Morley Stephanie (eds.). — Liverpool University Press, 2020. — 224 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). Richard Whitford’s Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges Very Necessary for the Helth of Mannes Soule is the last printed work written by a brother of the Brigittine community at Syon Abbey. A vocal opponent of Lutheran reforms and Henry VIII’s agenda to...
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1981. — 168 p. — (Chaucer Studies 6). This book is intended as a contribution to the study of Chaucer’s syntax and style. It is by no means a comprehensive survey, for little is said directly about the functions of the parts of speech, and even within the areas of usage chosen for discussion the treatment is necessarily selective. Nevertheless, it is...
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985. — 117 p. — (Chaucer Studies 11). There is fairly general agreement that the modern reader’s appreciation of Chaucer’s writings can be enhanced by providing the reader with guides to ‘Chaucerian background’—literary, historical, and cultural. And students of Chaucer are fortunate in having at their disposal a large number of books covering various...
French Elements in Middle English. Oxford, 1899.
Chapters illustrative of the origin and growth of Romance influence on the phrasal power of Standard English in its formative period.
p.3 - Introduction
p.9 -Verbal Phrases
p. 24 - Adverbial Phrases of Negation
p. 43 - Phrasal Power of the Preposition: At-phrases
p. 55 - Nominal Compounds and Phrases
p. 63 - General...
London, Oxford University Press, 1915. The parlement of the three ages. Prologue. Fytt I. Fytt II. Fytt III. Fytt IV. Fytt V. Fytt VI. Fytt VII. Fytt VIII. Fytt IX. Fytt X. Fytt XI. Fytt XII. Fytt XIII. Fytt XIV. Fytt XV. Fytt XVI. Fytt XVII. Fytt XVIII. Fytt XIX. Fytt XX. Fytt XXI. Notes. Textual notes. Explanatory and illustrative notes. Index of names. Appendix. Texts...
Langdell Sebastian J. (ed.). — Liverpool University Press, 2018. — 240 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). This book explores the work of the late-medieval English writer Thomas Hoccleve. It highlights Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a religious writer: an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to...
Routledge, 2019. — 287 p. Published firstly in 1984. This is a working text and guide to the context of treatises which have so far not played their full part in the study of the late Middle Ages. After the Norman Conquest, English fell out of use as the language of elementary instruction in Latin grammar, and no grammatical texts in Middle English survive from before the...
Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 2005. — 300 p. Scholarly and highly informative, this anthology represents a distinctive contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Middle English literature. Kenneth Sisam's well-chosen extracts from writings of the 14th century illustrate a rising new spirit in vernacular works. Selections include excerpts from such tales as...
Liverpool University Press, 2021. — 224 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him to understand the place of death...
Routledge, 2020. — 285 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World 52). Originally published in 1989, 'Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages' is an anthology of texts looking at the tradition of alliterative poetry in medieval English literature. The book presents lesser known alliterative Middle English poems, which are unmodernised and include explanatory...
Liverpool University Press, 2018. — 232 p. — (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies). The characteristic alliterative poem of the 14th and 15th centuries tells a story of incident and adventure: it is pre-eminently the poetry of narrative. Yet it is also, more than any other kind of medieval verse, remarkable for passages of vivid description, taking advantage of the extraordinary...
Routledge, 1989. — 261 p. List of illustrations. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Texts cited with their abbreviations. The Harley Lyrics. Wynnere and Wastoure. The Parlement of the Thre Ages. St Erkenwald. A Pistel of Susan. Somer Soneday. The Three Dead Kings. The Siege of Jerusalem. John Clerk: the Destruction of Troy. The Wars of Alexander. Select bibliography.
Peter Lang, 2021. — 308 р. — (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 59). This book is a selection of papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Middle English, held at the University of Florence, Italy from 5 to 8 February 2019. The papers, organised under three headings "Textual Interlacing", "Borrowing and the Lexicon", and "Language at Different...
1 st edition
Изд-во: Oxford University Press
Год: 1923
Страниц: 223
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The need of an elementary Middle English Grammar written on scientific and historical principles must long have been felt by pupils and teachers alike, and it is with a view of supplying this need that the present Grammar has been written. In writing it we have followed as...
Москва-Ленинград: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1941. 276 с. Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman («Видение Уилльяма о Петре Пахаре») представляет собой первую часть, совершенно самостоятельную, поэмы Ленгленда «Liber de Petro Plowman» («Книга о Петре Пахаре»). Вторая часть «Книги» первоначально носила название «Visio ejusdem de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best» («Его же видение о...
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