Old English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its
success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the
Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy
and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era
are the source for the majority of the Old English literature that
survives today, including literary classics such as Beowulf. Yet
the same monks who copied and compiled these important Old English
texts themselves wrote in a rarified Latin, full of esoteric
vocabulary and convoluted syntax and almost incomprehensible even
to the well-educated. Comparing works by the two most prolific
authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Aelfric of Eynsham,
Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the
simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric
Latin style. By examining developments in Old English and
Anglo-Latin side by side, The Politics of Language opens up a
valuable new perspective on the Benedictine Reform and literacy in
the late Anglo-Saxon period.
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