{"product_id":"the-politics-of-language","title":"The Politics of Language","description":"\u003cp\u003eOld English literature thrived in late tenth-century England. Its success was the result of a concerted effort by the leaders of the Benedictine Reform movement to encourage both widespread literacy and a simple literary style. The manuscripts written in this era are the source for the majority of the Old English literature that survives today, including literary classics such as \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e. Yet the same monks who copied and compiled these important Old English texts themselves wrote in a rarified Latin, full of esoteric vocabulary and convoluted syntax and almost incomprehensible even to the well-educated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and Ælfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style. By examining developments in Old English and Anglo-Latin side by side, \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Language\u003c\/em\u003e opens up a valuable new perspective on the Benedictine Reform and literacy in the late Anglo-Saxon period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Rebecca Stephenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575322116278,"sku":"9781487547479","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487547479.jpg?v=1727457465","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-language","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}