Coda to Volume 1

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. General Preface xiii
4. Conventions xx
5. General Introduction: The Prophesying Ass: Patterns and Premises 1
6. PART I. BEFORE AND AFTER THE ENGLISH REFORMATION: CHURCH HISTORY, NATIONAL HISTORY, SCHOLARLY HISTORY
7. Chapter 1. The Diglossic Contract 29
8. Chapter 2. Anglican Historiography 46
9. Chapter 3. Romantic Philology 59
10. Chapter 4. Catholic Apologetics 72
11. Chapter 5. Medieval Studies and Modernism 88
12. PART II. THE MEDIEVAL IDEA OF THE VERNACULAR: MODELS, TERMS, CONCEPTS
13. Chapter 6. Christian Teaching Across the Longue Durée 105
14. Chapter 7. Theology and the Christian Community 122
15. Chapter 8. The Vernacular as a Clerical Construct 137
16. Chapter 9. Institutional Stance and Social Address 151
17. Chapter 10. The Vernacular Archive 171
18. PART III. ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: LANGUAGE POLITICS AND MONASTIC REFORM
19. Chapter 11. Old English in the Long Twelfth Century 195
20. Chapter 12. The Benedictine Vernacular Canon I: Tenth Century 212
21. Chapter 13. The Benedictine Vernacular Canon II: Eleventh Century 223
22. Chapter 14. English in Monastery, Minster, and Court 238
23. Chapter 15. The Contradictions of Benedictine English 261
24. PART IV. FROM OLD ENGLISH TO EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH: CONTINUITY, ADAPTATION, SECULARIZATION
25. Chapter 16. The Narrowing of Written English 285
26. Chapter 17. The Transformation of Insular History 301
27. Chapter 18. The New Pastoralia I: Secular Priests and Regular Canons 315
28. Chapter 19. The New Pastoralia II: Diocesan Preaching Books 332
29. Chapter 20. The New Pastoralia III: Anchoresses and the City 346
30. Coda to Volume 1 361
31. Appendix: Tables of Dates, Texts, and Persons 371
32. Notes 377
33. Bibliography 461
34. Index of Manuscripts 565
35. General Index 567
36. Acknowledgments 585