New York, Kraus Reprint Co., 1971. Reprint. Cloth, pp. viii, 234. Fine. "This fragment of an English version of the extensive cartulary of the great monastic house of Oseney ... is of extensive interest as a monument of the language, raising more than one important question. Why was the English version begun? What members of the monastic community, entitled to knowledge of its most intimate papers, were then likely to understand documents in English, and not understand them in Latin? Why, if begun, was it not better done? ... Why was it left off?" (Preface).

England English language linguistics linguistic history Latin Oseney monastery monasticism reigion