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OverviewDeeply embedded in the history of Latin Europe, the vernacular ( the language of slaves ) still draws us towards urgent issues of affiliation, identity, and cultural struggle. Vernacular politics in medieval Latin Europe were richly complex and the structures of thought and feeling they left behind permanently affected Western culture. The Vulgar Tongue explores the history of European vernacularity through more than a dozen studies of language situations from twelfth-century England and France to twentieth-century India and North America, and from the building of nations, empires, or ethnic communities to the politics of gender, class, or religion. The essays in The Vulgar Tongue offer new vistas on the idea of the vernacular in contexts as diverse as Ramon Llull's thirteenth-century prefiguration of universal grammar, the orthography of Early Middle English, the humanist struggle for linguistic purity in Early Modern Dutch, and the construction of standard Serbian and Romanian in the waning decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Here Latin, the common tongue of European intellectuals, is sometimes just another vernacular, Sanskrit and Hindi stake their claims as the languages of Shakespeare, African-American poetry is discovered in conversation with Middle English, and fourteenth-century Florence becomes the city, not of Dante and Boccaccio, but of the artisan poet Pucci. Delicate political messages are carried by nuances of French dialect, while the status of French and German as feminine mother tongues is fiercely refuted and as fiercely embraced. Clerics treat dialect, idiom, and gesture-not language itself-as the hallmarks of vulgar preaching, or else argue the case for Bible translation mainly in pursuit of their own academic freedom. Endlessly fluid in meaning and reference, the term vernacular emerges from this book as a builder of bridges between the myriad phenomena it can describe, as a focus of reflection both on the history of Western culture and on the responsibilities of those who would analyze it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Fiona Somerset , Nicholas WatsonPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780271058511ISBN 10: 027105851 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 15 October 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Preface: On Vernacular Acknowledgments Introduction: King Solomon's Tablets Nicholas Watson Part I: 1100-1300: The Evangelical Vernacular 1. Using the Ormulum to Redefine Vernacularity Meg Worley 2. Talking the Talk: Access to the Vernacular in Medieval Preaching Claire M. Waters 3. The Language of Conversion: Ramon Llull's Art as a Vernacular Harvey Hames 4. Mechthild von Magdeburg: Gender and the Unlearned Tongue Sara S. Poor Part II: 1300-1500: Vernacular Textualities 5. Creating a Masculine Vernacular: The Strategy of Misogyny in Late Medieval French Texts Gretchen V. Angelo 6. Teaching Philosophy at School and Court: Vulgarization and Translation Charles F. Briggs 7. Vernacular Textualities in Fourteenth-Century Florence William Robins 8. Moult Bien Parloit et Lisoit le Franchois, or Did Richard II Read with a Picard Accent? Andrew Taylor 9. Professionalizing Translation at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century: Ullerston's Determinacio, Arundel's Constitutiones Fiona Somerset Part III: 1500-2000: Making the Mother Tongues 10. Purity and the Language of the Court in the Late-Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlands Jeroen Jansen 11. The Politics of ABCs: Language Wars and Literary Vernacularization Among the Serbs and Romanians of Austria-Hungary, 1780-1870 Jack Fairey 12. Indian Shakespeare and the Politics of Language in Colonial India Nandi Bhatia 13. Poets Laureate and the Language of Slaves: Petrarch, Chaucer, and Langston Hughes Larry Scanlon Further Reading About the Contributors IndexReviews<p> The collection's breadth of information and the expertise of its contributors ensure the ongoing usefulness of The Vulgar Tongue. <p>--Rick McDonald, Rocky Mountain Review The collection's breadth of information and the expertise of its contributors ensure the ongoing usefulness of The Vulgar Tongue. --Rick McDonald, Rocky Mountain Review The collection s breadth of information and the expertise of its contributors ensure the ongoing usefulness of The Vulgar Tongue. Rick McDonald, Rocky Mountain Review Author InformationNicholas Watson is a Professor in the Department of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is the author of Richard Rolle and the Invention of Authority (1991) and co-editor of The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 (Penn State, 1999). Fiona Somerset is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England (1998). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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