Recovering Old English

by Kees Dekker

This Element Recovering Old English examines the philological activities of scholars involved in the recovery of Old English in the period between c. 1550 and 1830. This Element focuses on four philological pursuits that dominated this recovery: collecting documents, recording the lexicon editing texts and studying the grammar. This Element demonstrates that throughout the vicissitudes of history these four components of humanist philology have formed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100937169X
• ISBN13: 9781009371698
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"