The Invention of Middle English: An Anthology of Sources, 1700-1864.
Publisher: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney / Brepols: Turnhout
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Turnhout
Description: Through extracts from seminal scholarship, each with explanatory notes outlining its importance, impact, and place within other works in the field, this book charts the formative years of the development of 'Middle English' as a scholarly discipline which emerged in the second half of the 18th century.