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Official and unofficial Latin words in 11th- and 12th-century England
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Earl and thegn, shire and sheriff, are English terms of considerable importance for the governance of England in the 11th century. I say ‘terms’ advisedly to reflect the precise sense of what they denote, because, although all three words carry a range of possible meanings, they are also part of what we must call official terminology. Putting such terms into Latin demands the creation of equivalent terms out of the Latin word-hoard, and it is well established that the Latin terminology of ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Volume:
- 206
- Pages:
- 247–271
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy
- Host title:
- Latin in Medieval Britain. Sources, language, and lexicography.
- Publication date:
- 2017-04-27
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-09
- DOI:
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0068-1202
- ISSN:
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0068-1202
- Source identifiers:
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622831
- ISBN:
- 9780197266083
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-05-17
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- British Academy
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Originally presented at "Latin in Medieval Britain: sources, language, and lexicography", Oxford, 12-14 December 2013. http://www.dmlbs.ox.ac.uk/conference-2013
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