Patrick P. O’Neill
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264508
- eISBN:
- 9780191734120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264508.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter re-examines the role of the Irish in the origins of the Old English alphabet. There are many theories about the Old English alphabet's origins. These include those contained in Karl ...
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This chapter re-examines the role of the Irish in the origins of the Old English alphabet. There are many theories about the Old English alphabet's origins. These include those contained in Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and E. Sievers and K. Brunner's Altenglische Grammatik, which both offered the view that the model for the Old English alphabet was the Latin alphabet. But the first work to cover Old English orthography was Alistair Campbell's Old English Grammar, which rejected the notion that the Latin alphabet which underlay the Old English alphabet was the one taught by the Irish.Less
This chapter re-examines the role of the Irish in the origins of the Old English alphabet. There are many theories about the Old English alphabet's origins. These include those contained in Karl Luick's Historische Grammatik and E. Sievers and K. Brunner's Altenglische Grammatik, which both offered the view that the model for the Old English alphabet was the Latin alphabet. But the first work to cover Old English orthography was Alistair Campbell's Old English Grammar, which rejected the notion that the Latin alphabet which underlay the Old English alphabet was the one taught by the Irish.
Christopher Cannon
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198779438
- eISBN:
- 9780191824562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779438.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, World Literature
Little data survives on the nature of medieval schools prior to the fourteenth century, but all the surviving evidence suggests that such schooling was informal in the broadest sense: it took place ...
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Little data survives on the nature of medieval schools prior to the fourteenth century, but all the surviving evidence suggests that such schooling was informal in the broadest sense: it took place in a priest’s home or a nook in a church; it was usually a kind of tutorial rather than anything like a “class.” Surviving schoolbooks suggest a similar sort of improvisation, for, while historians have often said that here was something like a medieval “textbook” for elementary learning, the contents of these books is eclectic. All this informality carried over directly to what the schoolboy was taught, since he was equipped with rules so that he could begin to write Latin sentences of his own. Where these sentences were in verse rather than prose, the schoolboy was taught to invent his own poems not by technical manuals (“arts of poetry”) but by the simplest exercises of basic grammar.Less
Little data survives on the nature of medieval schools prior to the fourteenth century, but all the surviving evidence suggests that such schooling was informal in the broadest sense: it took place in a priest’s home or a nook in a church; it was usually a kind of tutorial rather than anything like a “class.” Surviving schoolbooks suggest a similar sort of improvisation, for, while historians have often said that here was something like a medieval “textbook” for elementary learning, the contents of these books is eclectic. All this informality carried over directly to what the schoolboy was taught, since he was equipped with rules so that he could begin to write Latin sentences of his own. Where these sentences were in verse rather than prose, the schoolboy was taught to invent his own poems not by technical manuals (“arts of poetry”) but by the simplest exercises of basic grammar.
Steve Hart
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390755
- eISBN:
- 9789888390465
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390755.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide ...
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Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mistakes—speak the loudest.Less
Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mistakes—speak the loudest.
Joel B. Altman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226016108
- eISBN:
- 9780226016122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226016122.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This chapter pursues the historical development of ethos and tracks the interlocking destinies of Iago and Othello to the site where Shakespeare is most likely to have encountered them in their most ...
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This chapter pursues the historical development of ethos and tracks the interlocking destinies of Iago and Othello to the site where Shakespeare is most likely to have encountered them in their most complex form—the writings of Cicero, which combined elements of Peripatetic, Stoic, and Academic philosophy, and were part of the sixteenth-century English grammar school curriculum. More particularly, it suggests that Shakespeare was also influenced by the neostoic writings of his contemporaries. By following this itinerary, a new insight is developed into why Iago could seem “a man that's just”—and why “Othello's occupation's gone” when he answers “yes” to his own rhetorical question, “false to me?”Less
This chapter pursues the historical development of ethos and tracks the interlocking destinies of Iago and Othello to the site where Shakespeare is most likely to have encountered them in their most complex form—the writings of Cicero, which combined elements of Peripatetic, Stoic, and Academic philosophy, and were part of the sixteenth-century English grammar school curriculum. More particularly, it suggests that Shakespeare was also influenced by the neostoic writings of his contemporaries. By following this itinerary, a new insight is developed into why Iago could seem “a man that's just”—and why “Othello's occupation's gone” when he answers “yes” to his own rhetorical question, “false to me?”
Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198510666
- eISBN:
- 9780191705892
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198510666.001.0001
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This book is the first of a six volume edition
of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703). It begins with his
earliest known letters written shortly ...
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This book is the first of a six volume edition
of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703). It begins with his
earliest known letters written shortly before the outbreak of the first Civil War
while he was serving as a private chaplain, and ends on the eve of the restoration of
the monarchy in 1660, by which time he was already an established figure within the
Republic of Letters. The period covered is thus a momentous one in Wallis's life. It
witnesses his election to Savilian professor of geometry at the University of Oxford
in 1649 and his subsequent rise to become one of the leading mathematicians of his
day, particularly through his introduction of new arithmetical approaches to
Cavalieri's method of quadratures. The correspondence reflects the full breadth of
his professional activities in theology and mathematics, and provides insights not
only into religious debates taking place during the revolutionary years but also into
the various questions with which the mathematically-orientated scientific community
was concerned. Many of the previously unpublished letters also throw light on
University affairs. After his controversial election to the post of Keeper of the
Archives in 1658, Wallis fought vigorously to uphold the rights of the University of
Oxford whenever necessary, and to prevent as far as possible outside interference
from political and religious quarters.Less
This book is the first of a six volume edition
of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703). It begins with his
earliest known letters written shortly before the outbreak of the first Civil War
while he was serving as a private chaplain, and ends on the eve of the restoration of
the monarchy in 1660, by which time he was already an established figure within the
Republic of Letters. The period covered is thus a momentous one in Wallis's life. It
witnesses his election to Savilian professor of geometry at the University of Oxford
in 1649 and his subsequent rise to become one of the leading mathematicians of his
day, particularly through his introduction of new arithmetical approaches to
Cavalieri's method of quadratures. The correspondence reflects the full breadth of
his professional activities in theology and mathematics, and provides insights not
only into religious debates taking place during the revolutionary years but also into
the various questions with which the mathematically-orientated scientific community
was concerned. Many of the previously unpublished letters also throw light on
University affairs. After his controversial election to the post of Keeper of the
Archives in 1658, Wallis fought vigorously to uphold the rights of the University of
Oxford whenever necessary, and to prevent as far as possible outside interference
from political and religious quarters.
