![]() ![]() an intriguing work on a technical subject that is highly Franzen writers clearly, and with great personal interest in her chosen work. It is complex and highly technical study which, if it had been undertaken by a pedant, would have been exceedingly dull to all but a handful of diehard palaeographers. 'Christine Franzen's remarkable study of the Worcester Tremulous hand is a singular book for a number of reasons. Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies. These features add to the book's already considerable virtues those of a useful reference tool.' a list of the 176 most commonly gossed Old English words in three manuscripts, with glosses, frequencies, and references to the Middle English Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary and indexes of the Old and Middle English words discussed. In addition to the clear and persuasive arguments summarized above, Franzen provides descriptions of the manuscripts. ![]() Gatch, Union Theological Seminary, Albion, Summer 1993, Vol. 'Much that one had wanted to know has now been clarified by Christine Franzen in a dense and meticulous monograph' Franzen's book is undeniably a work of thorough scholarship' I am greatly impressed by the thoroughness and detail of her analysis. `Frazen is thorough, her research well-documented her argument supported in almost exhausting detail. This is in some ways a demanding book to read but one that repays careful attention.' P.R. STanley, Pembroke College, Oxford, Notes and Queries, September 1992 As a result, a reader's understanding is greatly enriched.'Į.G. The lexicographical information is of great interest. 'At every stage, every care has been taken to establish details and to base conclusions on them which make this an authoritative book. Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198117421 Number of pages: 248 Weight: 464 g Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 21 mm MEDIA REVIEWS This first full-scale study of the Worcester glosses is important for the wealth of information it provides about the work methods of the tremulous scribe, the English language at a transitional point in its history, and about the ability to read Old English in the thirteenth century. Christine Franzen argues that the scribe went through a methodical learning process, one step of which was the preparation of a first-letter alphabetical English-Latin word list, theĮarliest known in the English language. The words he did, what the purpose of the glossing may have been, and how well he knew or came to know Old English. #TREMULOUS BUILDING FULL#This book examines the full range of the scribe's work and addresses some important questions, such as which of the Worcester glosses may be attributed to him, why he glossed The shaky handwriting of the thirteenth-century scribe known as `the tremulous hand of Worcester' appears in at least twenty manuscripts dating from the late ninth to the twelfth century, glossing perhaps 50,000 Old English words, sometimes into Middle English, but much more often into Latin. ![]()
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