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Developing a written standard is one of the most fundamental institutional achievements of a society. On the threshold to the Modern Era the vernaculars massively gained ground in writing throughout Western Europe. They soon underwent regularization and eventually standardization. In England, however, the situation was quite different from that of the continent: well into the 14th century the literate space was filled mainly by Latin and French. For a long time Chaucer has been regarded as having brought about the 'victory' of English. But recent research calls for a broader perspective including the work of linguists as well as literary and cultural historians. Such a new perspective helps to assess that English was not reestablished by a poet hero and standardized by a king. Instead we need to consider that various forces were at work.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Beginnings of Standardization
• Subtitle: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-century England
• Author: Ursula Schaefer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9783631551066
• ISBN: 9783631551066
• ID: 10019225
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 149 × 210 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. September 2006

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