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
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
January 1983
Millett, Bella
99523544-2312-4078-97f1-c6d4eb8edd39
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, .
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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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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/67607
ISBN: 0859911403
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Eric Gerald Stanley
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Douglas Gray
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