The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

By: Simon Horobin

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Hardcover | 1 May 2003

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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers.
Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590

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 considershow 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.
Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590
SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.

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[An] excellent and accessible monograph.... Essential reading for anyone interested in rewriting the history of English. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY *
Detailed and meticulously researched * MEDIUM AEVUM *
Essential reading for those specializing in either the history of English or Chaucer's language. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
Valuable and well-researched. * SPECULUM *

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Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Chaucer's Language and the London Dialect	p. 16
Evidence for Chaucer's Language	p. 36
The Language of the Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales	p. 60
Chaucer in Print	p. 77
Chaucer's Grammar	p. 96
The Influence of Chaucer's Language	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 138
Notes on the Language of Canterbury Tales Manuscripts	p. 146
Chronological List of Canterbury Tales Manuscripts	p. 164
Bibliography	p. 167
Index of Words	p. 175
Index of Subjects	p. 177
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