Learning Languages in Early Modern England

Learning Languages in Early Modern England
Title Learning Languages in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author John Gallagher
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 285
Release 2019-08-29
Genre History
ISBN 0192574930

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In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.

The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15

The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15
Title The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15 PDF eBook
Author Edmund Harrold
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 222
Release 2008
Genre History
ISBN 9780754661726

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This volume presents a fully-referenced modern edition of the diary of the Manchester barber Edmund Harrold, covering the period 1712-1715. It is remarkable for its insights into his life and thoughts, laying open his struggles with alcohol, his attitudes to (and frequency of) marital sex, his reactions to the death of his three wives and 5 children, and his religious meditations upon these and other subjects. The diary also relates the ups and downs of his business, and the day-to-day realities of life as a provincial barber. More than this though, it is a frank, and often anguished, insight into the mind of an eighteenth century man, seeking to come to terms with himself, his god and a changing society.

Three Centuries of English Literature and History

Three Centuries of English Literature and History
Title Three Centuries of English Literature and History PDF eBook
Author Maggs Bros
Publisher
Pages 598
Release 1936
Genre English literature
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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney
Title Sir Philip Sidney PDF eBook
Author Donald V. Stump
Publisher Macmillan Reference USA
Pages 868
Release 1994
Genre Literary Criticism
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Catalogue

Catalogue
Title Catalogue PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 200
Release 1978
Genre Catalogs, Booksellers'
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Sotheran's Price Current of Literature

Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Title Sotheran's Price Current of Literature PDF eBook
Author Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher
Pages 724
Release 1927
Genre
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Catalogue

Catalogue
Title Catalogue PDF eBook
Author Maggs Bros
Publisher
Pages 164
Release 1937
Genre Booksellers' catalogs
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