Linguistic Variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group

Harumi Tanabe is Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Seikei University in Tokyo (Japan).Koichi Kano is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Koeki University in Sakata (Japan). John Scahill teaches at Insearch, University of Technology Sydney (Australia).All three researchers have edited diplomatic parallel manuscript texts of the Ancrene Wisse Group and published studies of this group of texts and other areas of Old, Middle and Modern English.

• Early Middle English language and literature – «Ancrene Wisse» – The Katherine Group – The Wooing Group – AB Language – Old Norse and French loanwords – Modernity and archaism in Early Middle English – Textual transmission – Lexical variation – Manuscript spacing – Prefixed and phrasal verbs