To Make his Englissh Sweete upon his Tonge

The volume contains three linguistic and four literary papers. The linguistic papers are devoted to Middle English spelling of fricatives, the temporal conjunction before in Medieval English and multiple negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English. The literary papers discuss Medieval East Anglian Drama, the making of language in Malory's Morte Darthur, a comparison of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, and the analysis of Dame Sirith.

Autorentext

The Editors: Marcin Krygier; Ph.D. in 1993, D.Litt. in 1997; Fulbright fellow at UCLA from 1995 to 1996; author and co-author of three books on Old and Middle English; head of Department of the History of English at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland).
Liliana Sikorska; Ph.D. in 1994, D.Litt. in 1996; visiting scholar at the University of Florida, Brown University and UCLA; visiting professor at the American University, Washington, DC; author and co-author of books on medieval English and Irish literature; head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland).

Inhalt

Contents: Merja Stenroos: A Middle English mess of fricative spellings: Reflections on thorn, yogh and their rivals - Rafal Molencki: On the rise of the temporal conjunction before in Medieval English - Richard Ingham: A structural constraint on multiple negation in Late Middle and Early Modern English - Stephen K. Wright: What's so «English» about medieval English drama? An East Anglican Miracle Play and its continental counterpart - Joyce Coleman: The making and breaking of language in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur - Harold Kaylor: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - Rafal Boryslawski: Sirith-na-Gig? Dame Sirith and the fabliau hags as textual analogues to the Sheela-figures.