The Elizabethan invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde and the study of Old English
The Anglo-Saxonists and their books: print, manuscript, and the circulation of scholarship -- Part I. Anglo-Saxon texts and sixteenth-century English -- The Abcedarium glossary: sources and methods of Nowell's Old English lexicography -- Inkhorns, orthographers, and antiquaries: standardized En...
| Résumé: | The Anglo-Saxonists and their books: print, manuscript, and the circulation of scholarship -- Part I. Anglo-Saxon texts and sixteenth-century English -- The Abcedarium glossary: sources and methods of Nowell's Old English lexicography -- Inkhorns, orthographers, and antiquaries: standardized English and the dawn of Anglo-Saxon studies -- Part II. Chorographies and the past of England -- Somewhere in time: the Abcedarium place-name index -- Putting the past in place: Lambarde's Alphabetical description and Perambulation of Kent -- Images and imaginings of England -- Part III. Old English and the common law -- 'The Saxons, our ancestors': ancient law and Old English laws -- Conclusion: the invention of Anglo-Saxon England |
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| Description: | Literaturverzeichnis S. 228 - 238 Literaturverz. S. 228 - 238 |
| ISBN: | 1843843188 |