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Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England
By: Siegfried WenzelImprint: University of Michigan Press
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Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not only are these works of considerable religious interest, they provide extensive information on their literary, linguistic, and cultural milieux. Macaronic Sermons begins by offering a typology of such works: those in which English words offer glosses, or offer structural functions, or offer neither of the two but yet are syntactically integrated. This last group is then examined in detail: reasons are given for this usage and for its origins, based on the realities of fourteenth-century England. Siefriend Wenzel draws valuable conclusions about the linguistic status quo of the era, together with the extent of education, the audiences' expectations, and the ways in which the authors' minds worked. Obviously of interest to scholars and students of early English literature, Macaronic Sermons also contains much valuable information for specialists in language development or oral theory, and for those interested in multicultural societies.
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| Title of History eBook: Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England | |
| Release Date: 02-09-2010 | |
| Publisher: University of Michigan Press |
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Macaronic Sermons: Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval England
Chapter One
Macaronic Literature
Any society or social group in which at least some members are more or less fluent in more than one language tends to produce "texts," both oral and written, that mix languages in one form or another. Thus, when two of the heirs of Charlemagne's empire, after years of civil war, came to an agreement, they confirmed it with oaths spoken in the language of the other party, and these so-called Strasbourg Oaths of A.D. 842, in Romance and German, have found their way into the Latin of Nithard's Histories. A formally very different sort of document that yet reflects precisely the same phenomenon is the famous Lindisfarne Gospels book, which presents the Latin Vulgate text of Scripture together with an interlinear gloss in Old English. Such bilingualism occurs in the societies of medieval Western Europe in many forms. It not only served preeminently practical purposes, as in the two examples cited or in later court records and biographies that tell us about bilingual proceedings and individuals, but was utilized for ultimately artistic aims.
Thus, in medieval England, poets frequently used Latin words, phrases, and even entire sentences in their vernacular compositions. The Anglo-Saxon poem Phoenix, after 666 alliterative lines in Old English, breaks into a bilingual coda.
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