2. The ‘vernacularisation’ and ‘standardisation’ of local administrative writing in late and post-medieval England

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Part 1: The orthodox version
5. Introduction 3
6. 1. A critical look at previous accounts of the standardisation of English 17
7. 2. The ‘vernacularisation’ and ‘standardisation’ of local administrative writing in late and post-medieval England 39
8. 3. The linguistic character of manuscripts attributed to the Beryn Scribe: A comparative study 87
9. 4. Spelling practices in late Middle English medical prose: A quantitative analysis 141
10. 5. Standardisation, exemplars, and the Auchinleck manuscript 165
11. 6. Bristol <th>, <þ> and <y>: The North-South divide revisited, 1400–1700 191
12. 7. <th> versus <þ>: Latin-based influences and social awareness in the Paston letters 215
13. 8. Early mass communication as a standardizing influence? The case of the Book of Common Prayer 239
14. Part 2: The revised version
15. 9. Abbreviations and standardisation in the Polychronicon: Latin to English and manuscript to print 269
16. 10. William Worcester’s Itineraria: mixed-language notes of a medieval traveller 317
17. 11. The relationship of borrowing from French and Latin in the Middle English period with the development of the lexicon of Standard English: Some observations and a lot of questions 343
18. 12. The role of multilingualism in the emergence of a technical register in the Middle English period 365
19. 13. More sugar and spice: Revisiting medieval Italian influence on the mercantile lexis of England 381
20. 14. -mannus makyth man(n)? Latin as an indirect source for English lexical history 411
21. 15. Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters 443
22. 16. A comparison of some French and English nominal suffixes in early English correspondence (1420–1681) 467
23. 17. Textual standardisation of legal Scots vis a vis Latin 487
24. 18. Rising living standards, the demise of Anglo-Norman and mixed-language writing, and standard English 515
25. Index 533