Download or read book Old English Scholarship in England From 1566 1800 Classic Reprint written by Eleanor Nathalie Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old English Scholarship in England From 1566-1800 In the study of English literature there comes to each of us a realization that one period of our language is wholly obsolete, and if we would read the literature of that period, we must apply ourselves with diligence to the perusal of grammars, dictionaries, and careqy prepared texts. A fact that we do not so often recog nize is that there was no English scholarship, in the strict sense, when Old English was a spoken language. How and when did this scholarship begin? How did it develop, and what obstacles did it meet? It is the object of this thesis to discuss the beginnings of Old English scholarship, and to trace its progress until it took a recognized place in the scholarly world. The definite limits of this consideration are the publication of the first Old English book, 1566, and the establish ment of the first professorship of the language in an English university, 1795. The material is chrono logically presented, both in the essay and in the ap pendixes. Each appendix is so arranged as to illus trate a particular phase of Old English scholarship. There are some things which I do not attempt to dis cuss; one is the subject of runes. That subject belongs to a linguistic study, not to an historical essay. Again, I do not attempt to estimate the scholarship of that time as compared With ours of to-day. Our debt to these early scholars is not lessened by a frank recogni tion of the fact that their work is practically worthless to the modern student. They are the pioneers, who blazed a trail which has now become a broad highway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Anglo Saxon England Volume 24 written by Michael Lapidge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains studies of texts that have come down to us from pre-Conquest times, thus enhancing our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England.
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