TY - BOOK ID - 6808504 TI - Macaronic sermons : bilingualism and preaching in late medieval England. PY - 1994 SN - 0472105213 9786612597473 047202146X 1282597477 9780472105212 9780472021468 PB - Ann Arbor University of Michigan press DB - UniCat KW - Christian literature, English (Middle) KW - Bilingualism KW - Sermons, English (Middle) KW - Sermons, Latin KW - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - English prose literature KW - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern KW - Macaronic literature KW - Preaching KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Classical influences KW - -Christian literature, English (Middle) KW - -Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - -English prose literature KW - -Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern KW - -Macaronic literature KW - -Preaching KW - -Sermons, English (Middle) KW - -Sermons, Latin KW - -Latin sermons KW - English sermons, Middle KW - Middle English sermons KW - Sermons, English KW - Sermons, Middle English KW - Christian preaching KW - Homiletics KW - Speaking KW - Pastoral theology KW - Public speaking KW - Literature, Macaronic KW - Literature KW - Poetry KW - Wit and humor KW - English literature KW - Latin Christian literature, Medieval and modern KW - Latin literature, Medieval and modern KW - Language and languages KW - Languages in contact KW - Multilingualism KW - -History and criticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Sermons, Medieval KW - History and criticism. KW - England KW - Intellectual life KW - -History KW - Latin sermons KW - Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism KW - Bilingualism - England - History KW - Sermons, English (Middle) - History and criticism KW - Sermons, Latin - England - History and criticism KW - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - Classical influences KW - English prose literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - Latin prose literature, Medieval and modern - England - History and criticism KW - Macaronic literature - History and criticism KW - Preaching - England - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6808504 AB - Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not only are these works of considerable religious interest, they provide extensive information on their literary, linguistic, and cultural milieux. Macaronic Sermons begins by offering a typology of such works: those in which English words offer glosses, or offer structural functions, or offer neither of the two but yet are syntactically integrated. This last group is then examined in detail: reasons are given for this usage and for its origins, based on the realities of fourteenth-century England. Siefriend Wenzel draws valuable conclusions about the linguistic status quo of the era, together with the extent of education, the audiences' expectations, and the ways in which the authors' minds worked. Obviously of interest to scholars and students of early English literature, Macaronic Sermons also contains much valuable information for specialists in language development or oral theory, and for those interested in multicultural societies. ER -