Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, Wright
Автор: Patricia Crone Название: Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law ISBN: 0521529492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521529495 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through a study of the Islamic patronate, this book tests the hypothesis that Roman law was a formative influence on Islamic law. It concludes that Roman law contributed only in so far as it was part and parcel of the rather different legal practice of the Near Eastern provinces.
Автор: Edited by Sarah Scott Название: Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art ISBN: 0521805929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521805926 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book, first published in 2003, focuses on art works created in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Contributors determine what these art works can tell us about the nature of life under an imperial regime, offering unique insights into the social and political significance of visual expression across the Roman Empire.
Автор: Wright Название: Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English ISBN: 1108075207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108075206 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A respected folklorist and medievalist, Thomas Wright (1810-77) wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. This two-volume dictionary, published in 1857, aimed to help readers to navigate unfamiliar vocabulary in historical literature and gives definitions, etymologies and illustrative examples. Volume 2 covers letters G-Z.
Автор: White Название: Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485–1660 ISBN: 1107403642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107403642 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Beginning in the early Tudor period, therefore defying the `medieval/renaissance` divide of past drama/literature scholarship, this book examines the interplay between theatre and religion in provincial England to 1660. It provides the first single-author study of play patronage, performance, and reception outside of London over this period.
How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain
While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others.
Janet Sorensen argues that the recognition and recovery of outsider languages was part of a transition in the eighteenth century from an aristocratic, exclusive body politic to a British national community based on the rhetoric of inclusion and liberty, as well as the revaluing of a common British past. These representations of the vernacular made room for the "common people" within national culture, but only after representing their language as "strange." Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it. Odd cant languages, witty slang phrases, provincial terms newly valued for their connection to British history, or nautical jargon repurposed for sentimental connections all toggle, in eighteenth-century jest books, novels, and poems, between the alluringly alien and familiarly British.
Shedding new light on the history of the English language, Strange Vernaculars explores how eighteenth-century British literature transformed the patois attributed to those on the margins into living symbols of the nation.
Examples of slang from Strange Vernaculars
bum-boat woman: one who sells bread, cheese, greens, and liquor to sailors from a small boat alongside a ship
collar day: execution day
crewnting: groaning, like a grunting horse
gentleman's companion: lice
gingerbread-work: gilded carvings of a ship's bow and stern
luggs: ears
mort: a large amount
thraw: to argue hotly and loudly
Автор: Wordsworth Название: The Precedence of English Bishops and the Provincial Chapter ISBN: 1107643163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107643161 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1906, this book presents an attempt `to ascertain the office and position of certain Bishops in the Provincial Chapter of Canterbury, and likewise to trace the history of the Precedence of certain English Prelates`. Extensive notes and an appendices section are incorporated within the text.
Автор: Manning Название: The Puritan-Provincial Vision ISBN: 0521107016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521107013 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the `puritan-provincial vision`: a particular way of looking at life and man`s relationship to what lies beyond himself.
Описание: This glossary contains around 3,700 words in the Cornish dialect of English as spoken up to the time of its publication in 1882. Frederick W. P. Jago (1817-92) also presents a history of Cornish and the Cornish dialect, and the life of Dolly Pentreath, the last native speaker of Cornish.
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