New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission

Author: Christian Kay

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9027247641

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This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical study of the English lexicon and its sound and writing systems. Using research tools such as machine-readable text and lexical corpora, and intellectual tools such as corpus and cognitive linguistics, many of the papers move from a close study of a set of data to conclusions of theoretical significance, often concerning questions of classification and organisation. More broadly, whether concerned with lexicology or transmission, the papers have a social orientation, since neither lexicology nor phonology can be seen as divorced from its social setting.

English Government in the Thirteenth Century
English Government in the Thirteenth Century

Author: Adrian Jobson

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781843830566

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Papers on aspects of the growth of royal government during the century. The size and jurisdiction of English royal government underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the development of central government, law and justice, and the crown and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of local justice; women as sheriffs; and a Nottinghamshire study examining the tensions between the role of the king as manorial lord and as monarch. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, PAUL R. BRAND, DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, ANTHONY MUSSON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT, LOUISE WILKINSON

Community of the College of Justice
Community of the College of Justice

Author: John Finlay

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0748664424

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Drawing on Court of Session records uncovered by John Finlay, this study investigates the important role of College members in the cultural and economic flowering of Scotland, and argues that a single Law institution had a marked influence on the Scottish