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Author Stephenson, Rebecca, 1975- author.

Title The politics of language : Byrhtferth, Ælfric, and the multilingual identity of the Benedictine reform / Rebecca Stephenson
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (215 pages)
Series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 -- Language
Byrhtferth, approximately 970- -- Language
SUBJECT Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 fast
Byrhtferth, approximately 970- fast
Subject Benedictines -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500
SUBJECT Benedictines fast
Subject Languages in contact -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500
Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Literacy
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
Subject England
England -- Winchester
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442624153
1442624159