The Tremulous Hand of Worcester: A Study of Old English in the Thirteenth Century (Oxford English Monographs) [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Franzen, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198117426 ISBN 13: 9780198117421

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198117426
• ISBN 13: 9780198117421
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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