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Macaronic sermons : bilingualism and preaching in late-medieval England / Siegfried Wenzel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wenzel, Siegfried, 1928-
- Series:
- Recentiores.
- Recentiores
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern--England--History and criticism.
- Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern.
- English prose literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English (Middle).
- Preaching--England--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Preaching.
- Sermons, Medieval--England--History and criticism.
- Sermons, Medieval.
- Sermons, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
- Sermons, English (Middle).
- Macaronic literature--History and criticism.
- Macaronic literature.
- Bilingualism--England--History--To 1500.
- Bilingualism.
- Sermons, Latin--History and criticism.
- Sermons, Latin.
- England--Intellectual life--1066-1485.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not only are these works of considerable religious interest, they provide extensive information on their literary, linguistic, and cultural milieux. Macaronic Sermons begins by offering a typology of such works: those in which English words offer glosses, or offer structural functions, or offer neither of the two but yet are syntactically integrated. This last group is then examined in detail: reasons are given for this usage and for its origins, based on the realities of fourteenth-century England. Siefriend Wenzel draws valuable conclusions about the linguistic status quo of the era, together with the extent of education, the audiences' expectations, and the ways in which the authors' minds worked. Obviously of interest to scholars and students of early English literature, Macaronic Sermons also contains much valuable information for specialists in language development or oral theory, and for those interested in multicultural societies.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1. Macaronic Literature ; Chapter 2. Types of Bilingual Sermons ; Chapter 3. The Manuscripts ; Chapter 4. Macaronic Sermons ; Chapter 5. Macoronic Texture ; Chapter6. Bilingualism in Action ; Appendices ; Appendix A. Inventories of Manuscripts and Sermons ; Appendix B. Sermon S-07, Amore langueo; Appendix C. Sermon O-07, De celo querebant; Appendix D. Sermon W-154, Quem teipsum facis ; Appendix E. Statistical Table ; Bibliography ; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612597473
- 9781282597471
- 1282597477
- 9780472021468
- 047202146X
- OCLC:
- 743200938
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01037 hdl
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