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Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and the continuity of English prose

Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and the continuity of English prose
Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and the continuity of English prose
The article looks at two works of the early thirteenth-century Middle English 'Ancrene Wisse' Group, which have previously been studied mainly in relation to earlier English prose, and identifies borrowings not only of content but of style from twelfth-century Latin works, suggesting that although the Group 'draws on a tradition of prose-writing which can be traced back beyond the Conquest . . . some of its works at least look outwards as well as backwards for their models, and one of the formative influences on their style is the Latin prose of their own time.'
0859911403
100-114
D.S. Brewer
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
Stanley, Eric Gerald
Gray, Douglas
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
Stanley, Eric Gerald
Gray, Douglas

Millett, Bella (1983) Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and the continuity of English prose. In, Stanley, Eric Gerald and Gray, Douglas (eds.) Five Hundred Years of Words and Sounds: a Festschrift for Eric Dobson. Cambridge, UK. D.S. Brewer, pp. 100-114.

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The article looks at two works of the early thirteenth-century Middle English 'Ancrene Wisse' Group, which have previously been studied mainly in relation to earlier English prose, and identifies borrowings not only of content but of style from twelfth-century Latin works, suggesting that although the Group 'draws on a tradition of prose-writing which can be traced back beyond the Conquest . . . some of its works at least look outwards as well as backwards for their models, and one of the formative influences on their style is the Latin prose of their own time.'

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Published date: January 1983

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Local EPrints ID: 67607
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/67607
ISBN: 0859911403
PURE UUID: 3b2d5d7c-419b-407b-b99f-c9395628d897

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Date deposited: 01 Sep 2009
Last modified: 10 Dec 2021 16:17

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Author: Bella Millett
Editor: Eric Gerald Stanley
Editor: Douglas Gray

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