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The vulgar tongue : medieval and postmedieval vernacularity
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The vulgar tongue : medieval and postmedieval vernacularity

Author: Fiona Somerset; Nicholas Watson
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Fiona Somerset; Nicholas Watson
ISBN: 0271023104 9780271023106
OCLC Number: 52197477
Description: xvi, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: King Solomon's tablets / Nicholas Watson -- Using the Ormulum to redefine vernacularity / Meg Worley -- Talking the talk : access to the vernacular in medieval preaching / Claire M. Waters -- Language of conversion : Ramon Llull's art as a vernacular / Harvey Hames -- Mechthild von Magdeburg : gender and the "unlearned tongue" / Sara S. Poor -- Creating a masculine vernacular : the strategy of misogyny in late medieval French texts / Gretchen V. Angelo -- Teaching philosophy at school and court : vulgarization and translation / Charles F. Briggs -- Vernacular textualities in fourteenth-century Florence / William Robins -- "Moult bien parloit et lisoit le Franchois," or Did Richard II read with a Picard accent? / Andrew Taylor -- Professionalizing translation at the turn of the fifteenth century : Ullerston's Determinacio, Arundel's Constitutiones / Fiona Somerset -- Purity and language of the court in the late-sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Netherlands / Jeroen Jansen -- Politics of ABCs : "Language wars" and literary vernacularization among the Serbs and Romanians of Austria-Hungary, 1780-1870 / Jack Fairey -- "Indian Shakespeare" and the politics of language in colonial India / Nandi Bhatia -- Poets laureate and the language of slaves : Petrarch, Chaucer, and Langston Hughes / Larry Scanlon.
Responsibility: edited by Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson.
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