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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.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (215 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984 -- Language.
Aethelwold, Saint, Bishop of Winchester, approximately 908-984.
Byrhtferth, approximately 970- -- Language.
Byrhtferth, approximately 970-
Benedictines -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500.
Benedictines.
England -- Winchester.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Languages in contact -- England -- Winchester -- History -- To 1500.
Languages in contact.
Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Literacy.
England.
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stephenson, Rebecca, 1975- Politics of language. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015] 9781442650589 (DLC) 2015487732 (OCoLC)907173890
ISBN 9781442624153 (electronic book)
1442624159 (electronic book)
9781442650589 (bound)
1442650583 (bound)