A History of English Field Names

A History of English Field Names
Author: John Field
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317897013

Field names are not only interesting in themselves, but also a rich source of information about the communities originating them. The earliest recorded names often describe only the location or nature of the land, but changes in language, technology, social organisation, land ownership and even religious and political thinking have all contributed to a surprisingly complex picture today. A pioneering history.

A History of English Field Names

A History of English Field Names
Author: John Field
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317897021

Field names are not only interesting in themselves, but also a rich source of information about the communities originating them. The earliest recorded names often describe only the location or nature of the land, but changes in language, technology, social organisation, land ownership and even religious and political thinking have all contributed to a surprisingly complex picture today. A pioneering history.

The Cambridge History of the English Language

The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author: Richard M. Hogg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 828
Release: 1992
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521264778

The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.

English Field Names

English Field Names
Author: John Field
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1989
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Alliteration in Culture

Alliteration in Culture
Author: Jonathan Roper
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230305873

Alliteration occurs in a wide variety of contexts in stress-initial languages, including Icelandic, Finnish and Mongolian. It can be found in English from Beowulf to The Sun . Nevertheless, alliteration remains an unexamined phenomenon. This pioneering volume takes alliteration as its central focus across a variety of languages and domains.

Anglo-Saxon History

Anglo-Saxon History
Author: David A.E. Pelteret
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000525910

First published in 2000, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England (BRASE) is a series of volumes that collect classic, exemplary, or ground-breaking essays in the fields of Anglo-Saxon studies generally written in the 1960s or later, or commissioned by a volume editor to fulfill the purpose of the given volume. This, the sixth volume in the series, is the first devoted to history and the first edited by a scholar outside the field of literary study. David Pelteret has collected fifteen previously published essays: the first nine of his essays present a conspectus of Anglo-Saxon history; the other seven are spread among seven "Special Approaches": Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Economic and Comparative History, Geography and Geology, Place-Names, and Topography and Archaeology.

A Companion to Chivalry

A Companion to Chivalry
Author: Robert W. Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783273720

A comprehensive study of every aspect of chivalry and chivalric culture.

A Dictionary of British Place-Names

A Dictionary of British Place-Names
Author: David Mills
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 019960908X

From Abbas Combe to Zennor, this dictionary gives the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day.