Mending "the injurie of oblivion": "Englishing" Chaucer and Barbour in Early Printed Editions.
- Author / Editor
- Henk, Antony.
Mending "the injurie of oblivion": "Englishing" Chaucer and Barbour in Early Printed Editions.
- Published
- SEDERI: Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies 31 (2021): 31–54.
- Description
- Compares editorial decisions from a linguistic perspective in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer’s works with Andro Hart's Middle Scots 1616 edition of John Barbour's "Brus" to assess the perception of the intelligibility of Middle Scots and its prestige as a literary language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Language and Word Studies