The Elizabethan invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde and the study of Old English

The Anglo-Saxonists and their books: print, manuscript, and the circulation of scholarship -- Part I. Anglo-Saxon texts and sixteenth-century English -- The Abcedarium glossary: sources and methods of Nowell's Old English lexicography -- Inkhorns, orthographers, and antiquaries: standardized En...

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Main Author: Brackmann, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Brewer 2012
In: Studies in Renaissance literature (30)
Year: 2012
Reviews:[Rezension von: Brackmann, Rebecca, The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England: Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English] (2013) (Oliver, Lisi)
Edition:1. publ.
Series/Journal:Studies in Renaissance literature 30
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nowell, Laurence -1576 / Lambard, William 1536-1601 / Old English language / Philology
Further subjects:B Nowell, Laurence (1530-approximately 1570) Criticism and interpretation
B Law and literature (England) History 16th century
B Literature and society (England) History 16th century
B English literature History and criticism
B English language Early modern, 1500-1700
B Lambarde, William (1536-1601) Criticism and interpretation
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Summary:The Anglo-Saxonists and their books: print, manuscript, and the circulation of scholarship -- Part I. Anglo-Saxon texts and sixteenth-century English -- The Abcedarium glossary: sources and methods of Nowell's Old English lexicography -- Inkhorns, orthographers, and antiquaries: standardized English and the dawn of Anglo-Saxon studies -- Part II. Chorographies and the past of England -- Somewhere in time: the Abcedarium place-name index -- Putting the past in place: Lambarde's Alphabetical description and Perambulation of Kent -- Images and imaginings of England -- Part III. Old English and the common law -- 'The Saxons, our ancestors': ancient law and Old English laws -- Conclusion: the invention of Anglo-Saxon England
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis S. 228 - 238
Literaturverz. S. 228 - 238
ISBN:1843843188