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The Tremulous Hand of Worcester - Christine Franzen

The Tremulous Hand of Worcester

A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
1991
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811742-1 (ISBN)
CHF 249,95 inkl. MwSt
Examines the work of a 13th-century scribe, known as the "tremulous hand of Worcester", who glossed some 50,000 Old English words into Latin and Middle English. The book attempts to answer questions regarding his methods, use of sources, knowledge of Old English and the purpose of his glossing.
The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as `the tremulous hand of Worcester' appears in at least twenty manuscripts dating from the late ninth to the twelfth century, glossing perhaps 50,000 Old English words, sometimes into Middle English, but much more often into Latin. This book examines the full range of the scribe's work and addresses some important questions, such as which of the Worcester glosses may be attributed to him, why he glossed the words he did, what the purpose of the glossing may have been, and how well he knew or came to know Old English. Christine Franzen argues that the scribe went through a methodical learning process, one step of which was the preparation of a first-letter alphabetical English-Latin word list, the earliest known in the English language. This first full-scale study of the Worcester glosses is important for the wealth of information it provides about the work methods of the tremulous scribe, the English language at a transitional point in its history, and about the ability to read Old English in the thirteenth century.

The layers of glossing; the manuscripts; his early work in Middle English; his use of sources and external aids; his glosses - some successes and failures; some thoughts on his intentions. Appendices: the worksheet entries; his tremble.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.9.1991
Reihe/Serie Oxford English Monographs
Zusatzinfo 8 pp plates
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 224 mm
Gewicht 464 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften Paläografie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-811742-6 / 0198117426
ISBN-13 978-0-19-811742-1 / 9780198117421
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