"Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past." Philip...
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"Full of fresh and illuminating insights into a way of looking at the English past in the sixteenth century... a book with the potential to deepen and transform our understanding of Tudor attitudes to ethnic identity and the national past." Philip Schwyzer, University of Exeter. Laurence Nowell (1530-c.1570), author of the first dictionary of Old English, and William Lambarde (1536-1601), Nowell's protégé and eventually the first editor of the Old English Laws, are key figures in Elizabethan historical discourses and in its political and literary society; through their work the perio
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Frontcover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxonists and Their Books: Print, Manuscript, and the Circulation of Scholarship; PART I: ANGLO-SAXON TEXTS AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH; Chapter 2 The Abcedarium Glossary: Sources and Methods of Nowell's Old English Lexicography; Chapter 3 Inkhorns, Orthographers, and Antiquaries: Standardized English and the Dawn of Anglo-Saxon Studies; PART II: CHOROGRAPHIES AND THE PAST OF ENGLAND; Chapter 4 Somewhere in Time: The Abcedarium Place-Name Index
Chapter 5 Putting the Past in Place: Lambarde's Alphabetical Description and Perambulation of KentChapter 6 Images and Imaginings of England; PART III: OLD ENGLISH AND THE COMMON LAW; Chapter 7 'The Saxons, our Ancestors': Ancient Law and Old English Laws; Conclusion: The Invention of Anglo-Saxon England; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover