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English in the Middle Ages / Tim William Machan.
LIBRA PE525 .M33 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machan, Tim William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English language.
- English language--Middle English.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.
- English literature.
- Criticism, Textual.
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Variation.
- Language and culture--England--History--To 1500.
- Language and culture.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : facsimile ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This is an enquiry into the use and status of English in medieval England. It is concerned with English relative to French and Latin and with its regional and social varieties in relation to each other. It considers how people then viewed language and how their notion of the significance of English influenced the way they used it.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199262683
- OCLC:
- 51668421
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