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This book shows how depictions of etymology were used by twelfth-century poets, translators, bureaucrats and historians to portray Britain's past.

How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals t

Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; a

The essays in this volume form a new cultural history focused round, but not confined to, the presence and interactions of francophone speakers, writers, reader

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period t