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Subject(s)

• English language—Old English, ca. 450-1100—History [Browse]
• Multilingualism—England—History—To 1500 [Browse]

Series

Cambridge elements. Elements in England in the early Medieval World 2632-203X

Summary note

In the words of its own historians, pre-Norman Britain held five languages and four peoples. Yet in modern scholarship, Old English is too often studied separately from the other languages that surrounded it. This Element offers a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence from the pre-Norman period that situates Old English as one of several living languages that together formed the basis of a vibrant oral and written literary culture in early medieval Britain. Each section centres around a key thematic topic and is illustrated through a series of memorable case studies that encapsulate the extent to which multilingualism appeared in every facet of life in early medieval Britain: religious and scholarly -- political and military -- economic and cultural -- intellectual and artistic. The Element makes an overall argument for the dynamic extent of transcultural literary and linguistic culture in early medieval Britain before the arrival of the Normans.

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ISBN

9781009275811 (ebook)

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