How Long to Read Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century

How Long Does it Take to Read Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 16 minutes to read Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century by Rebecca Brackmann

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Description

Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history but, this book argues, the upheaval inspired them to produce some of the most famous landmark texts in early Old English studies.England in the 1640s and 1650s experienced civil wars, regicide, and unprecedented debate over religious and social structures, but it also saw several milestones in the field of early medieval English studies. This book argues that the scholars of Old English who produced these works did so not in spite but because of the intense political upheaval surrounding them. The opening chapters examine the book collecting and lexicographic endeavors of the Parliamentarian Simonds D'Ewes, sponsor of the professorship of "Saxon" at Cambridge University, and Abraham Wheelock's pro-Stuart "Old English" poetry and the puritan overtones of his edition of the Old English Historia Ecclesiastica. It then moves on to consider the constitutionalist Roger Twysden's depiction of early English laws as the cornerstone for English identity in his edition of Archaionomia and the Leges Henrici Primi; and the royalist and Laudian bent of both William Somner's chorographic work and his Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, the first printed dictionary of Old English. It concludes by an exploration of the way in which William Dugdale deployed early medieval events to comment on his present day in his monumental county history, Antiquities of Warwickshire. The volume as a whole suggests that the crises through which these scholars lived and worked spurred their research to engage with both the past and present, using Old English texts as a lens through which to view understand and contribute to contemporary debates about the English church and state.

How long is Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century?

Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century by Rebecca Brackmann is 253 pages long, and a total of 64,009 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century aloud.

What Reading Level is Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century?

Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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