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Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume I by George Lillie Craik
The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits will admit, to the gathered harvest of a thousand years -- from ALFRED the Great to VICTORIA -- now existing in a language radically identical for the whole of that period, the common property of all who are born to its use, a personal endowment not to be limited by local accidents, but the rightful possession of those who "claim SHAKESPEARE"s language for their
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1. Introductory. 1. Literature and Language. The...
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1.2. Early Latin Literature in Britain
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1.3. The Celtic Languages and Literatures
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1.4. Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship
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1.5. The English Language
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2. The Norman Period. 1. The Norman Conquest. Arabic...
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2.2. Schools and Universities. Rise of the Scholastic...
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2.3. Classical Learning. Mathematics. Medicine. Law....
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2.4. Latin Chroniclers. Ingulphus. William of...
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2.5. Ailred. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Alfred of...
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2.6. The French language in England. The Langue d'Oc...
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2.7. Anglo-Norman Poets. King Henry I. His Queens,...
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2.8. Luc de la Barre. Guichard de Beaulieu. Arthurian...
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2.9. Vernacular Language and Literature: A.D. 1066-1216
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2.10. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries....
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2.11. Latin Historical Works of the Thirteenth and...
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2.12. Anglo-Norman Poets. French Prose Romances....
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3. Second English. 1. St. Godric. The Here Prophecy
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