From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose

From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose
ISBN-10
0859915395
ISBN-13
9780859915397
Category
English language
Pages
200
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Author
Tadao Kubouchi

Description

This collection of papers examine the continuity of English prose. The volume begins with an investigation of word order in the Ancrene Wisse and Richard Rolle's English epistles, followed by studies of prose rhythm in Wulfstan's De Falsis Dies; the relationship between punctuation and rhythmical unit markers and syntax in Late Old English orally-delivered prose; Scandinavian elements in Rolle's Form of Living and the texts of Be Cynestole in Wulfstan's Institutes of Polity; and the problem of word order in the Ancrene Wisse is then reconsidered. The text concludes with papers discussing manuscript punctuation as evidence for linguistic change and an electronic corpus of diplomatic parallel manuscript texts as a research tool for Early English scholars.

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