The Politics of Language Byrhtferth, Aelfric, and the Multilingual Identity of the Benedictine Reform [#950532]

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English | ISBN: 1442650583 | 2015 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 573 KB
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.