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		Early Modern English refers to the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period (the latter half of the 15th century) to 1650.
		In Early Modern English, there were two second-person personal pronouns: thou, the informal singular pronoun, and ye, which was both the plural pronoun and the formal singular pronoun (like modern French tu and vous or the German du and Sie).
		English was used in church services, making the general population more familiar with a standard version of the language, rather than the liturgy being in Latin, which was completely incomprehensible to most people.
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	Early Modern English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Modern English refers to the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period (the later half of the 1400s) to 1650.
		The standardization of English spelling falls within the Early Modern English period, and is influenced by conventions predating the Great Vowel Shift, explaining the archaic non-phonematic spelling of contemporary Modern English.
		English was used in church services, making the general population more familiar with a standard version of the language, rather than the liturgy being in Latin, which was totally incomprehensible to most people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Early_Modern_English (1046 words)

	The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts - Rainer, Claridge (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts - Rainer, Claridge (ResearchIndex)
		The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (1997)
		The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /282625.html (393 words)

	History of the English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English is a West Germanic language that originated from the Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany.
		The Germanic language of these Old English inhabitants of Britain was influenced by the contact with Norse invaders, which may have been responsible for some of the morphological simplification of Old English, including loss of grammatical gender and explicitly marked case (with the notable exception of the pronouns).
		During the 15th century, Middle English was transformed by the Great Vowel Shift, the spread of a standardised London-based dialect in government and administration, and the standardising effect of printing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_English_language (1297 words)

	Sample Chapter for Scodel, J.: Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.
		Early modern representations of the mean-extremes opposition engage in dialogue not only with the ancient philosophical tradition in which the concept received its most sustained elaboration but also with diverse generic traditions in which the concept was imaginatively applied to different features of individual and social life.
		Early modern georgic poets diversely respond to their Virgilian model, which identified the mean with a farmer-soldier uneasily poised between rural idyll and imperial expansions.
		English poets who adapt and transform ancient symposiastic poetry participate in major cultural conflicts of the period: between tavern norms of sociable pleasure and religious, Galenic, and mercantilist exhortations to observe the mean in wine drinking; between elite and popular modes of indulgence; and between diverse religious positions both within and outside the English church.
	press.princeton.edu /chapters/i7270.html (6909 words)

	eHistLing - Early Modern English
		The Early Modern English period saw the continuation of this process and the increasing social status of English as an effect of printing and other far-reaching social, political, religious, and cultural changes in the Renaissance.
		The period to define the historical context of Early Modern English is the Renaissance.
		English Bibles raised the prestige of English in general, whereas Latin was despised by many as the language of the Pope.
	www.ehistling-pub.meotod.de /01_lec04.php (3303 words)

	Sample Chapter for Scodel, J.: Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.
		Early modern representations of the mean-extremes opposition engage in dialogue not only with the ancient philosophical tradition in which the concept received its most sustained elaboration but also with diverse generic traditions in which the concept was imaginatively applied to different features of individual and social life.
		Early modern georgic poets diversely respond to their Virgilian model, which identified the mean with a farmer-soldier uneasily poised between rural idyll and imperial expansions.
		English poets who adapt and transform ancient symposiastic poetry participate in major cultural conflicts of the period: between tavern norms of sociable pleasure and religious, Galenic, and mercantilist exhortations to observe the mean in wine drinking; between elite and popular modes of indulgence; and between diverse religious positions both within and outside the English church.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/i7270.html (6910 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Demography The early modern period witnessed considerable fluctuations in the relative prosperity and size of English towns.
		Early modern towns have also been the focus of studies of mercantile fortunes [3.12], shopkeeping [3.16, 3.23], and life insurance [3.4].
		Religion Early modern urban historians have paid considerable attention to religion not only because of the centrality of theological ideas in notions of urban community, but also because archival materials-notably parish registers, church court records, and wills-survive in relative abundance.
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/urban/emessay.html (2398 words)

	Criticism: The bloody shouldered Arabian and early modern English culture
		Early modern treatises on horsemanship undoubtedly idealize what were often brutal relations between humans and their equine partners in service.
		The early modern language is often oddly affecting to the modern ear used to more scientific-sounding discourse as appropriate for training or schooling.
		As the English came to think of themselves as "Britons" and imperial subjects, they also sought to become one with their horses, to ride light and exert control by means of a silken thread.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_1_46/ai_n8688096 (1128 words)

	Shakespeare & Early Middle English: Development Of Modern English
		Modern English was becoming wonderfully flexible and that was the background to the Renaissance explosion of the inventive language we see when we look at the poetry of the time.
		By the time of Early Modern English, the distinction between subject and object uses of ye and you had virtually disappeared, and you became the norm in all grammatical functions and social situations.
		Shakespeare was acutely aware of the way the Early Modern English language that he grew up with was changing and it is yet another way that he was able to create the levels of meaning that made him such an enduring writer.
	www.nosweatshakespeare.com /shakespeare_early_middle_english.htm (923 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		The rise of literacy in Early Modern English was accompanied by a rapid expansion of the lexicon.
		In Middle English the corresponding estimate for double that time is about 7,500 surviving borrowings; the different numbers are due to the availability of books and the popularization of literacy and education in Early Modern English.
		Compared to classical borrowings, the volume of Early Modern English borrowings from other European or non-European languages is not overwhelming, but they set a trend that has been steady and increasing to this day: the trend to welcome words not just from the highly prestigious languages of the past, but from any other contemporary language.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122499/index.html (2599 words)

	The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
		By combining full texts of early dictionaries written over 160 years by lexicographers with varying purposes, the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) is a reference work for English of the Renaissance period.
		Instead, until the late 17th century, English dictionaries were normally "bilingual," either in mapping a non-English language to English (that is, translation) or in mapping hard, often Latinate English, so-called "ink-horn" terms, to easier common English (a function of synonyms).
		Lexical indeterminacy observed in the period (the frequent inability of modern lexicographers to detect precise senses, and their omission of citations of that kind in their examples) is consistent with this theory.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /english/emed/emedd.html (3405 words)

	Transition from Middle English to Early Modern English (from English language) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The death of Chaucer at the close of the century (1400) marked the beginning of the period of transition from Middle English to the Early Modern English stage.
		The Early Modern English period is regarded by many scholars as beginning in about 1500 and terminating with the return of the monarchy (John Dryden's Astraea Redux) in 1660.
		English is the national language of the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-74812 (836 words)

	A History of the English Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages.
		English is in the Germanic group of languages.
		Four major dialects of Old English emerged, Northumbrian in the north of England, Mercian in the Midlands, West Saxon in the south and west, and Kentish in the Southeast.
	www.wordorigins.org /histeng.htm (2456 words)

	Modern English History
		There is in fifteenth-century English poetry a range of genre, theme, and tone which is worthy of serious study, and much of that poetry is actually European in inspiration and context rather than Chaucerian." He mentions Lydgate from the early 1400s especially.
		By the early 1700s, use of "thou" and "thee" was a sign of belonging to the Society of Friends--unless you were addressing God in prayer or public worship, where the older sense of God as "thou" has persisted till very recently and still has a place in hymns and the King James Bible.
		In the reign of Elizabeth, the English government, though an international player, was largely concerned with its own island, and not the whole of that--Scotland being a co-equal and sometimes ornery neighbor.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/courses/4301w00/modhist.html (2048 words)

	Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME)
		Other corresponding English terms in the explanation segment of a bilingual lexicon, of course, are sometimes synonyms for the English word that is the subject of the query.
		Modern Headwords retrieves word-entries that include, in the case of English, a headword in multiple alternate spellings, forms, and inflections.
		English ones can be retrieved both in alphabetical order and by part of speech: an advantage, because many identically-spelled word-forms are both nouns and verbs, or adjectives and nouns.
	www.digento.de /titel/104780.html (1731 words)

	Humanities Research Institute Associates: Mathew Martin
		Early modern English rituals of pain are legal, religious and medical in nature.
		I am studying these early modern rituals of pain alongside their reproductions on the stages of early modern English theater, reproductions that interrogate pain as a fundamental philosophical and cultural problem.
		As I argue in my previous book Between Theater and Philosophy, professional theater in early modern England is characterized by its aggressive parasitism, a theatricality that pursues the emptiness or ontological groundlessness of the reality in opposition to which it is condemned as mere theater.
	www.brocku.ca /hri/associates/martin.html (569 words)

	UCSB Department of English: Early Modern Studies Specialization
		Early Modern courses required for the English major (for example, English 101 or 102) may not count toward the Early Modern Specialization.
		The Early Modern Center at UCSB mobilizes the English department's strength in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century studies, which is maintained by eleven faculty in the field.The Center provides a specially-constructed space (consisting of a seminar area, resource library, and networked computers) that promotes collaborative research and teaching.
		The emphasis in Early Modern Studies grows out of the English Department's new Early Modern Center (EMC), a specially-constructed facility (consisting of a seminar area, resource library, and networked computers) designed to facilitate the research and teaching of scholars and graduate students working on literature of the sixteenth- through eighteenth centuries.
	english.ucsb.edu /undergrad/specializations/early-modern/index.asp (607 words)

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		The Reformation contributed to the ascendancy of English because the religious disputations were for the most part conducted in English, and as a consequence of Reformation, translations of the Bible into the vernacular now had government and Church sanction.
		The vocabulary is adequate to the demands made on it (in the case of English, this meant that it had to expand its lexicon).
		The expansion of the English lexicon (vocabulary) during this period was to generate considerable controversy.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /hel/helmod/ren.html (2022 words)

	Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems. Bartleby.com
		A collection of 424 poems by 101 authors from one of the most influential publishers of the early twentieth century.
		Considered an early Modern poet ahead of his Victorian time, G.M. Hopkins’s verse is notable for his use of sprung rhythm.
		This collection of verse is Housman’s signature work reflecting on passing of youth in the English countryside.
	www.bartleby.com /verse (1007 words)

	EMC - The Early Modern Center
		he Early Modern Center at UCSB mobilizes the English department's strength in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century studies, which is maintained by eleven faculty in the field.
		The Center creates courses around innovative annual themes; supervises the department's undergraduate specialization in Early Modern Studies; organizes colloquia and conferences; produces an online gallery of images and archive of internet resources; maintains a bookshelf of rare books in its library and critical reviews on its website; and offers a graduate student assistantship each year.
		The Early Modern Center Gallery is a featured resource of the center, containing reproductions of many important period images in thumbnail, browser, and large high-quality sizes.
	emc.english.ucsb.edu (484 words)

	Islam and Early Modern English Literature (1403977933) ROBINSON - Palgrave Macmillan
		But in the early modern period, religious war and commercial and colonial expansion radically changed the terms of that encounter.
		Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology.
		Focusing on selfhood, embodiment and environment in the early modern world, this volume approaches a range of literary and cultural texts from an ecological perspective-one in which the microcosmic \'body\' is seen as continuous with and permeated by the macrocosmic \'environment\'.
	www.palgrave-usa.com /catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403977933 (759 words)

	Historical English Travel Phrases
		Early Modern English was used between the late 1400s to 1650 CE.
		Middle English was used in present day England between 1100 and 1500 CE.
		Old English was used in present day England and southern Scotland between 700 and 1100 CE.
	www.travelphrases.info /languages/englishhistorical.htm (129 words)

	ENG 346: Aspects of the English Language
		By the time Shakespeare was writing his plays in the late 1500s and early 1600s, the people of England were speaking what we now call Early Modern English.
		This form of English, spoken and written from roughly 1500 to about 1700, still showed remnants of Middle English; nevertheless, it was in many respects similar to the language we speak today.
		This stage of English is of particular interest to historians of American English because it coincides with the exploration and settlement of America by the English.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/language/aspects/spg2003/10emodeng.htm (494 words)

	Scodel, J.: Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.
		As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness.
		Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars.
		Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness.
	www.pup.princeton.edu /titles/7270.html (484 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - The Language of Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shakespeare's English, in spite of the calamitous cries of high school students everywhere, is only one linguistic generation removed from that which we speak today.
		Although the Elizabethan dialect differs slightly from Modern English, the principles are generally the same.
		Word order, as the language shifted from Middle to Early Modern English, was still a bit more flexible, and Shakespeare wrote dramatic poetry, not standard prose, which gave some greater license in expression.
	www.bardweb.net /words.html (552 words)

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