Imagining an English reading public, 1150-1400 / Katharine Breen.
Imagining an English reading public, 1150-1400 / Katharine Breen.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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2010.
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English
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x, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The fourteenth-century crisis of habit; 2. Medieval theories of habitus; 3. The grammatical paradigm; 4. A crusading habitus; 5. Piers Plowman and the formation of an English literary habitus; Epilogue. The King's English.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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England
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2010.
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"I call "vernacular language" that which infants become accustomed to from those around them when they first begin to distinguish sounds; or, to put it more briefly, I declare that vernacular language is what we take in without learning any rules, by imitating our nurses. There is also another kind of language"--Provided by publisher....
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Imagining an English reading public, 1150-1400 / Katharine Breen.
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 79.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N028.90942/7
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0521199220
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028.90942
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