The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

Simon Horobin

The Language of the Chaucer Tradition
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 May 2003
Pages
192
ISBN
9780859917803

The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

Simon Horobin

The manuscript copies of Chaucer’s works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer’s linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer’s own language and his linguistic environment. This book considers how scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer’s language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.

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