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Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:34:27
From: Christoph Suter [ch.suter at peterlang.com]
Subject: The MS Digby 133 «Mary Magdalene»: Gotti (ed.), Maci

Title: The MS Digby 133 «Mary Magdalene» 
Subtitle: Beyond scribal practices: language, discourse, values and attitudes 
Series Title: Linguistic Insights  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/87490?format=HC 

Author: Stefania M. Maci
Editor: Maurizio Gotti

Hardback: ISBN:  9783034332569 Pages: 336 Price: Europe EURO 75
Hardback: ISBN:  9783034332569 Pages: 336 Price: U.K. £ 61
Hardback: ISBN:  9783034332569 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 90.95

Abstract:

The MS 133 Digby Mary Magdalene has commonly been investigated by paying
attention to literary features, while linguistic aspects have seldom been
taken into consideration, with the result that any deviation from the norm has
been classified as scribal inconsistency. However, what has been regarded as
scribal carelessness actually seems to be a modern misunderstanding of scribal
practices. Indeed, the significant combination of Southern, Midlands and
Northern elements featuring in the language of Mary Magdalene is the result of
the scribe’s desire to faithfully reproduce the author’s design, in which
variants may have a marked social function. We can thus infer that the Mary
Magdalene author probably created a sort of biblical koiné, shared with the
audience, which was realized with the linguistic varieties offered by the
existing late Middle English dialects and clearly exploited not only for
poetic but also, and above all, for religious purposes. At the same time, the
text puts an innovative emphasis on the figure of Mary Magdalene, who
simultaneously plays the role of sinner and saint, virgin and prostitute,
female and male. Thanks to the methodological approach of this volume, the
author shows that most unusual forms are diatopic and diastratic alternatives
used in specific religious contexts to realize well-defined sociolinguistic
purposes.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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