Listened to Lecture 12: Medieval Attitudes toward Language from The History of the English Language, 2nd Edition by Seth Lerer from The Great Courses

Here, unpack some attitudes toward language change and variation during the Middle Ages in an effort to understand how writers of the past confronted many of the problems regarding social status and language. Many of these problems, you’ll discover, are similar to those we still deal with today.

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