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unusual facts about Medieval English



Chipping, Lancashire

Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, and is probably derived from ceapen, an Old English word meaning 'market', though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word chepynge with a more specific meaning of 'long market square'.


see also

A. R. Taylor

In January 1947 Arnold began the career which dominated his life, gaining a lectureship in the English Department at the University of Leeds, where he succeeded Bruce Dickins (who had himself succeeded Arnold's tutor E. V. Gordon when Gordon left Leeds for Manchester) in teaching medieval English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic Studies.

Atworth

1470 by Thomas Tropenell, and is described by Pevsner as being ‘one of the most perfect examples of the late medieval English manor house’.

Burh

According to H. R. Loyn, the burh "represented only a stage, though a vitally important one, in the evolution of the medieval English borough and of the medieval town".

Mōdraniht

The event is attested by the medieval English historian Bede in his 8th-century Latin work De temporum ratione.

Prestbury

Thomas Prestbury, a medieval English Benedictine abbot and university chancellor

T. L. Burton

L. Burton (Thomas Lingen (Tom) Burton; born 1944) is a professor at the University of Adelaide and a reputed scholar of medieval English literature, language, and dialectics.

The Last Knight

The book uses John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster as the focus around which he describes the medieval English culture of that time (1340-1399).