When English Welcomed French: A Study of French Loanwords in the Early Middle English Brut
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University
Moderator: Prof. Shen Hong, Zhejiang University
Time: 20:00-22:00 pm, March 1, 2024 (Beijing time)
Venue:腾讯会议368-993-560
B站直播链接：https://live.bilibili.com/24519212
Lawman’s Brut survives in two versions: the text in the Caligula manuscript is over 16,000 lines, generally considered closer to the original version from 1200 AD. The text in the Otho manuscript is a shortened recension with language changed to sound more contemporary, including the addition of a number of newly-borrowed French words. Based on new research, this talk will for the first time discuss the full range of French borrowings in the Otho manuscript, many of which continue to be used in today’s English.
Daniel Donoghue is the John P. Marquand Professor of English at Harvard University and an international advisor for the CMRS, Zhejiang University. The author of many articles and books, including How the Anglo-Saxons Read their Poems (2018), he is the General Editor of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Affiliated with the Medieval Academy of America, he has taught at Harvard for 35 years.
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