A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

Mark Faulkner is Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where he is Director of the M. Phil in Medieval Studies. He is the author of the entry on Medieval Manuscripts for Oxford Bibliographies Online, and the co-author of the chapter on English in the Oxford Handbook of Language Contact.

• Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Introduction; 2. Approaching Twelfth-Century English-Language Texts; Part II. The Affordances of English: 3. English in the Linguistic Ecology of the Long Twelfth Century; 4. English as a Language of Documentary Record; 5. English as a Language for Writing History; 6. English as a Language for Sermon Writing; 7. Conclusion.

'This book makes a field-changing contribution to scholarship and cannot be ignored by any-one working on the literary, cultural, social, or linguistic history of England's High Middle Ages. It is a formidable achievement.' Laura Ashe, The Review of English Studies