Thread: Looking for Middle English textbooks

Hey, anyone have a middle english textbook (not reader!) in electronic format? Or at least know where I can get one?

There are very many good resources on the Interent. Just google them out.

I tried. Everything I found was only a few topics and offerings to buy a reader.

Well, there is no need in textbooks of ME period because all the changes of the language are quite inferrable in either way---from the present state and from the history if you're a specialist.

prehaps your best bet would to go to authors of the period and u neednt even go far for there are some really good ones...um charles dickens ernest hemingway are a start.

They didn't write in Middle English. Middle English was used from 1200 AD till approx 16th century. The most famous works from that period are Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterburry Tales, the Legend of good Women etc...

Twenty thousand freres on a route,
And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute
And comen agayn as faste as they may gon,
And in his ers they crepten everychon.
He clapte his tayl agayn and lay ful stille.

look in cletic history

Why on earth do you need that?!
Most of us struggle enough with modern English.

Vadim84

I'm fond of ancient and medieval languages Just for fun, and I want to be able to write as there: http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/

Originally Posted by mooman

prehaps your best bet would to go to authors of the period and u neednt even go far for there are some really good ones...um charles dickens ernest hemingway are a start.

Ernest Hemingway middle English?!

He was only born in 1899. Do you think English has really changed that much in 100 years.

Shakespeare even wrote in early modern English and he was around in the 16th century.

And "cletic history", I presume you mean Celtic history, and since when has English been Celtic? Middle English has got nothing to do with it. English is Germanic.