História da Língua Inglesa - Chapter 5

Questions – Chapter V – English and Latin

1.      What was the most remarkable linguistic developments of fourteenth-century

England?

It was the association that was created between the use of English and opposition to church and state.

2.      What did the Oxford theologian John Wyclif do?

3.      What did John Aston do to be heard? What was his punishment?

4.      Who produced the early versions of the Bible? What does that indicate?

5.      How was literacy distributed in the United Kingdom at this time?

6.      What was the debate that took place in Oxford in 1401 about?

7.      What is the connection between hearsay and literacy in 1401?

8.      What was the problem for the church with the English version of the Bible?

9.      How was the Canterbury Tales regarded by the church?

10.  How did Lollards writing in English tackle the problem of expressing in English ideas that formerly been expressed in Latin?

11.  What was the typical kind of education in the Medieval Ages?

12.  What happened to grammar schools in the fifteenth century?

13.  What was happening in the early sixteenth century? Was scholarship conducted in English?

14.  What were the other professions that used Latin? Why English was dangerous to them?

15.  What were the standards of scholarship established in the period from 1509 to 1524? Why?

16.  What was the consequence of the Reformation?

17.  What does the author mention regarding reformed pronunciation? Was it really a threat? What was actually a threat?

18.  What happened by the sixteenth century? Why?

19.  What were some of the words brought to English by Sir Thomas Elyot?

20.  How was Elyot's approach?

21.  What were some of the words brought to English by Sir Thomas Hoby?

22.  In addition to words, what did the scholars also influence?

23.  How was William Tyndale translation of the bible?

24.  What was the relationship between Henry VIII and the translation of the bible?

25.  What were some of the contested words in the bible?

26.  What did Bishop Gardiner do?

27.  What the connection between Latinate English and power created? Explain this creation.