{"product_id":"9781138676619","title":"Language and Community in Early England : Imagining Distance in Medieval Literature (Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies it as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context. Moving from the 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-13\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries, to the 16\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century antiquarians who collected medieval manuscripts, it suggests that this period in the history of English can only be understood if we loosen insistence on a sharp divide between Old and Middle English and place the textuality in the framework of a multilingual matrix. It argues that the tension of linguistic distance provides necessary energy for the community-building activities of annotation and glossing, translation, compilation, and other uses of texts and manuscripts. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45416963375183,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":8190.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781138676619-1.jpg?v=1780453062","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781138676619","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}