Dialect, Rhyme, and Emendation in<i>Sir Tristrem</i>

Putter, Ad; Jefferson, Judith A.; Minkova, Donka

doi:10.5406/jenglgermphil.113.1.0073

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“…14 Work on the language of individual Auchinleck texts has gradually undone the early argument according to which the manuscript's contents were not only inscribed at a London location, but also composed there for inclusion in the book (see e.g. Go ¨rlach, 1981;Wiggins, 2005;Putter et al, 2014). The most recent work on the book's language suggests that its main scribe worked with exemplars written in no more than four different hands, however (see Thaisen, 2020).…”

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French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

Critten

Gay-Crosier

Picca

2021

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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The Auchinleck Manuscript was produced in the 1330s in London and is best known to scholars of Middle English literature on account of the romances that it transmits. Several of these texts treat the establishment and defense of England and it has been argued that their interest in English history is matched by the language in which almost all of the manuscript’s texts are written: English. This article reconsiders the Englishness of the Auchinleck Manuscript via a quantitative analysis of its lexis. We show that a comparatively large proportion of the Auchinleck lexicon has connections to French and that, of these words with French connections, many do not appear to have been much used in English writing before the 1300s. Our statistics are derived via program scripts that match Auchinleck lexicon items to headword entries in the Middle English Dictionary and collect data pertaining to word etymology and earliest dates of citation from those entries. Where previous studies have emphasized the porous boundaries between English and French in 14th-century English contexts, we posit that some poets might aim to make creative capital out of the deliberate juxtaposition of the languages. The argument is supported by a series of visualizations; interactive versions of these visualizations and the data on which they are based are archived at our project website (https://solliryc.github.io/AuchinleckDataViz/).

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French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

Critten

Gay-Crosier

Picca

2021

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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Tristan Narrative in B ritain

Tiller

2017

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain

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The story of Tristan (Tristrem, Tristram) originated in the oral traditions of the Welsh. In the twelfth century, Thomas of Britain's Roman de Tristan introduced the romance of Tristan and Isolde's tragic love into Britain. The thirteenth‐century English redaction of the Roman de Tristan , Sir Tristrem presents the same story in English metre. In the fifteenth century, Sir Thomas Malory's Sir Tristram of Lyonesse, the fifth romance of the Morte Darthur, follows the French model of the Prose Tristan in expanding the romance and integrating it into the Arthurian cycle for the first time. Popular interest in the Tristan story waned during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, authors Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Algernon Charles Swinburne showed renewed interest in the story, each offering his own version. A number of modern versions have since appeared.

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Transforming Early English

Smith

2020

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Dialect, Rhyme, and Emendation inSir Tristrem

Cited by 16 publications

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French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

French lexis in the Auchinleck Manuscript: A digital-philological approach

Tristan Narrative in B ritain

Transforming Early English

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