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Living Through Conquest - The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Hardcover, New)
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Living Through Conquest - The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and
provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in
the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and
communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides
fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and
challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By
engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production,
and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the
boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series
question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations
of both canonical and less well-known works.
Living through Conquest is the first ever investigation of the
political clout of English from the reign of Cnut to the earliest
decades of the thirteenth century. It focuses on why and how the
English language was used by kings and their courts and by leading
churchmen and monastic institutions at key moments from 1020 to
1220. English became the language of choice of a usurper king; the
language of collective endeavour for preachers and prelates; and
the language of resistance and negotiation in the post-Conquest
period. Analysing texts that are not widely known, such as Cnut's
two Letters to the English of 1020 and 1027, Worcester's
Confraternity Agreement, and the Eadwine Psalter, alongside
canonical writers like AElfric and Wulfstan, Elaine Treharne
demonstrates the ideological significance of the native vernacular
and its social and cultural relevance alongside Latin, and later,
French.
While many scholars to date have seen the period from 1060 to 1220
as a literary lacuna as far as English is concerned, this book
demonstrates unequivocally that the hundreds of vernacular works
surviving from this period attest to a lively and rich textual
tradition. Living Through Conquest addresses the political concerns
of English writers and their constructed audiences, and
investigates the agenda of manuscript producers, from those whose
books were very much in the vein of earlier English codices to
those innovators who employed English precisely to demonstrate its
contemporaneity in a multitude of contexts and for a variety of
different audiences.
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