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A Book of Middle English Thorlac Turville-Petre

A Book of Middle English By Thorlac Turville-Petre

A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville-Petre

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A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville-Petre

The fourth edition of this essential Middle English textbook introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. Beginning with an extensive overview of middle English history, grammar, syntax, and pronunciation, the book goes on to examine key middle English texts - including a new extract from Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Divine Love - with helpful notes to direct students to key points within the text. Keeping in mind adopter feedback, this new edition includes a new model translation section with a student workbook and model exercise for classroom use. This new chapter will include sections on 'false friend' words, untranslatable idioms and notes on translating both poetry and prose. The text and references will be fully updated throughout and a foreword dedicated to the late J. A. Burrow will be included.

About Thorlac Turville-Petre

THORLAC TURVILLE-PETRE is Emeritus Professor of Medieval English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of numerous books including The Alliterative Revival, England the Nation, and Description and Narrative in Middle English Alliterative Poetry. His Reading Middle English Literature is designed as a companion to this book. J. A. BURROW? was Emeritus Professor at Bristol University, UK, a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society. He was the author of many classic studies, including A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Medieval Writers and their Work, and The Ages of Man.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix Preface to the Third Edition xi Abbreviations xii PART ONE 1 Introducing Middle English 3 1.1 The Period 3 1.1.1 From Old to Middle English 3 1.1.2 From Middle to Modern English 4 1.2 Varieties of Middle English 5 1.2.1 Regional Dialects 5 1.2.2 Early and Late Middle English 8 1.2.3 Spelling 8 2 Pronouncing Middle English 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Vowels 10 2.2.1 The Long Vowels 10 2.2.2 The Short Vowels 11 2.2.3 Unstressed Final -e 11 2.2.4 The Diphthongs 12 2.3 Consonants 12 2.4 Stress 13 3 Vocabulary 14 3.1 Introduction 14 3.2 Scandinavian 14 3.3 English, French and Latin 15 3.4 Latin Loan-Words 17 3.5 French Loan-Words 18 4 Inflexions 19 4.1 Introduction 19 4.1.1 The Inflexional System 19 4.1.2 Loss of Inflexional Endings 19 4.2 Nouns 20 4.2.1 Introduction 20 4.2.2 Noun Inflexions: Early Southern Texts 21 4.2.3 Developments in Noun Inflexions 22 4.2.4 Genitive Singular Without Ending 23 4.2.5 Unchanged Plurals 23 4.2.6 Mutated Plurals 23 4.3 Pronouns and Articles 24 4.3.1 Forms of the Personal Pronouns 24 4.3.2 First and Second Person Pronouns 24 4.3.3 Third Person Pronouns: Masculine and Neuter Singular 25 4.3.4 Third Person Pronouns: Feminine Singular 25 4.3.5 Third Person Pronouns: Plural 26 4.3.6 The Definite Article 26 4.3.7 Demonstratives 27 4.3.8 The Indefinite Article 27 4.4 Adjectives and Adverbs 27 4.4.1 Definite and Indefinite Inflexions 27 4.4.2 Inflexions for Case 28 4.4.3 Comparison of Adjectives 29 4.4.4 Comparison of Adverbs 29 4.5 Verbs 30 4.5.1 Introduction 30 4.5.2 Present Tense 30 4.5.3 Past Tense and Past Participle 32 4.5.4 Past of Weak Verbs 32 4.5.5 The Verbs 'Have' and 'Say' 33 4.5.6 Past of Strong Verbs 34 4.5.7 Irregular Verbs 35 4.5.8 The Verb 'To Be' 36 5 Syntax 38 5.1 Gender 38 5.2 Number 38 5.3 Use of Cases 39 5.3.1 Nominative and Accusative 39 5.3.2 Genitive 39 5.3.3 Dative 40 5.4 Pronouns and Articles 41 5.4.1 ?ou and ?e 41 5.4.2 Non-expression of Personal Pronouns 41 5.4.3 Man 42 5.4.4 Self 42 5.4.5 Reflexive Pronouns 42 5.4.6 Relative Pronouns 43 5.4.7 The Articles 44 5.5 Adjectives and Adverbs 44 5.5.1 Position 44 5.5.2 Comparatives and Superlatives 44 5.5.3 Adjectives as Nouns 45 5.6 Verbs 45 5.6.1 Use of Present Tense 45 5.6.2 Use of Past Tense 45 5.6.3 Auxiliaries of the Past 46 5.6.4 Auxiliaries of the Future: shall and will 46 5.6.5 The Infinitive 47 5.6.6 The Subjunctive 48 5.6.7 The Imperative 50 5.6.8 Impersonal Verbs 50 5.6.9 Verbs of Motion 51 5.6.10 The Passive 51 5.7 Negation 52 5.8 Questions 52 5.9 Word-Order 53 5.9.1 Inversion 53 5.9.2 The Object 54 5.9.3 Prepositions 54 5.9.4 Relative Clauses 54 5.9.5 Adverbial Phrases 54 5.9.6 Verb in Final Position 55 5.10 Recapitulation and Anticipation 55 6 Metre 56 6.1 Introduction 56 6.2 Rhymed Verse 56 6.3 Alliterative Verse 59 6.4 La?amon's Brut 61 7 From Manuscript to Printed Text 62 8 Translating Middle English 9 Select Bibliography 65 9.1 Bibliographies and Indexes 65 9.2 Language Studies 65 9.3 General Studies of the Literature 67 9.4 Studies of Particular Genres 69 9.5 Historical and Social Studies 70 PART TWO: PROSE AND VERSE TEXTS Note on Treatment of Texts 74 1 The Peterborough Chronicle 1137 75 2 The Owl and the Nightingale 81 3 La?amon: Brut 96 4 Ancrene Wisse 106 5 Sir Orfeo 112 6 The Cloud of Unknowing 132 7 William Langland: Piers Plowman 141 8 Patience 162 9 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 182 10 Pearl 202 11 St Erkenwald 221 12 John Trevisa: Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk 235 13 John Gower: Confessio Amantis 243 14 Lyrics 255 15 The York Play of the Crucifixion 272 16 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Parliament of Fowls 283 17 Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde 309 18 Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 327 18a The Reeve's Tale 328 18b The Prioress's Tale 346 19 Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love Textual Notes 356 Glossary 363 List of Illustrations The dialects of Middle English 7 Dot maps of THEM: 'th-' type and 'h-' type 16 Lines from St Erkenwald (MS Harley 2250) 62 A page from Confessio Amantis (MS Fairfax 3) 245

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GOR011990792
9781119619277
1119619270
A Book of Middle English by Thorlac Turville-Petre
Thorlac Turville-Petre
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2020-12-10
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