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Henry VII and Henry VIII in the Verse and Visual Art of Early 16th-Century Antwerp:Propaganda, Polemic, and Evasion
No full textRanging from c. 1050 to c. 1600 this volume crosses chronological, linguistic, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries to explore the cultural history of relations between English and Dutch speakers. The evidence consists of many different types and genres, and our contributors take account of the range of languages spoken and written in England and the Low Countries. They move beyond source study to consider other ways in which speakers of Dutch and English took notice of each other in their writing. Above all, this book attempts to join up the study of literary transfer with historical evidence of contact situations. Stories, ideas, and ‘memes’ in our period did not travel without people to carry them. While the literary historians amongst our contributors may come to the question of Anglo-Dutch relations from a different angle than do the historians, we have combined forces in the conviction that findings on both sides will be mutually illuminating
Multilingualism in Medieval Britain:Sources and Analysis
No full textThe essays collected in this volume deal with the multilingual cultures of later medieval England and Wales and aim to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the later medieval period.This book is devoted to the study of multilingual Britain in the later medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to John Skelton. It brings together experts from different disciplines — history, linguistics, and literature - in a joint effort to recover the complexities of spoken and written communication in the Middle Ages. Each author focuses on one specific text or text type, and demonstrates by example what careful analysis can reveal about the nature of medieval multilingualism and about medieval attitudes to the different living languages of later medieval Britain. There are chapters on charters, sermons, religious prose, glossaries, manorial records, biblical translations, chronicles, and the macaronic poetry of William Langland and John Skelton. By addressing the full range of languages spoken and written in later medieval Britain (Latin, French, Old Norse, Welsh, Cornish, English, Dutch, and Hebrew), this collection reveals the linguistic situation of the period in its true diversity and shows the resourcefulness of medieval people when faced with the need to communicate. For medieval writers and readers, the ability to move between languages opened up a wealth of possibilities: possibilities for subtle changes of register, for counterpoint, for linguistic playfulness, and, perhaps most importantly, for texts which extend a particular challenge to the reader to engage with them
La tradition arthurienne tardive en Angleterre et en Écosse : du Moyen Âge au début de l’Époque Moderne, vol. III, part IV: Late Arthurian Traditions in England and Scotland: Medieval to Early Modern, in Matière arthurienne tardive en Europe, 1270-1530 / Late Arthurian Tradition in Europe, gen. ed. Christine Ferlampin-Acher
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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