The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform by Rebecca Stephenson

The Politics of Language: Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform

Toronto Anglo-Saxon

Rebecca Stephenson

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary
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Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts wri...

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