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The Elizabethan Invention of Anglo-Saxon England : Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Study of Old English.

"Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century ... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past." Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brackmann, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : Brewer, Boydell & amp ; 2012.
Colección:Studies in Renaissance literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxonists and Their Books: Print, Manuscript, and the Circulation of Scholarship; PART I: ANGLO-SAXON TEXTS AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH; Chapter 2 The Abcedarium Glossary: Sources and Methods of Nowell's Old English Lexicography; Chapter 3 Inkhorns, Orthographers, and Antiquaries: Standardized English and the Dawn of Anglo-Saxon Studies; PART II: CHOROGRAPHIES AND THE PAST OF ENGLAND; Chapter 4 Somewhere in Time: The Abcedarium Place-Name Index.
  • Chapter 5 Putting the Past in Place: Lambarde's Alphabetical Description and Perambulation of KentChapter 6 Images and Imaginings of England; PART III: OLD ENGLISH AND THE COMMON LAW; Chapter 7 'The Saxons, our Ancestors': Ancient Law and Old English Laws; Conclusion: The Invention of Anglo-Saxon England; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover.