This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a mult

This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.

Explores how translation in texts from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints to Chaucer imagines political, cultural, and linguistic communities.

This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The

How were cultural, political, and social identities formed in the early modern period? How were they maintained? What happened when they were contested? What me