IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 812: Languages and Literacy in the Early Medieval West, IV: Language and Power in Anglo-Saxon Charters
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Project 'The Languages of Early Medieval Charters', Universidad del País Vasco |
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| Organisers: | Edward Roberts, Department of History, University of Liverpool / Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| Moderator/Chair: | Levi Roach, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 812-a | Constructing Authority in Anglo-Saxon 'Private' Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 812-b | The Linguistic Features and Formulae of Anglo-Saxon Writs (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 812-c | Languages of Boundaries and Boundaries of Language in Cornish Charters, 900-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Abstract | In the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds, Latin was not the language of everyday speech; it needed to be learned as a second or foreign language. Multilingual and vernacular texts from these regions thus enable us to pose questions about literacy, the relationship between written and oral communication, language choice, and code-switching. The papers in this fourth session all explore the interplay between Latin and the vernacular in charters from Anglo-Saxon England, examining linguistic choice as a source of authority, the significance of the language of late Anglo-Saxon writs, and the implications of the appearance of Old Cornish in charters from Cornwall. |