English Language 14 to 1500's
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- English language 1450 - 1500
- Richard Pynson (1448 Normandy - 1529)
- Printed 500 books that helped influence English languge.
- Credited with intoducing Roman type into English printing
- Became the Kings Printer to Henry VII the to his heir Henry VIII in 1506
- Expert in printing law texts
- Book of Hours or Missals
- William Caxton (1415-1422ca, March 1492)
- First English person to work as a printer
- First book he printed 1473 - Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
- Set up printing press in Westminster 1476.
- Helped to provide most linguistically exact replication of foreign language
- Hurried his publishing, led to wholesale transfer of French words to English and numerous mistakes.
- Chancery Standard
- In early stages CS users would have been familiar with French and Latin
- provided a core of which early modern English could crystalise
- By mid 15th century was used for most official purposes except by the church (who used latin).
- Was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects
- Used other forms of dialects to make it clearer e.g 'they' 'their' used tharter than the london hi/they or 'hir'
- Helped to avoid confusion with words such as he, her, him.
- Used other forms of dialects to make it clearer e.g 'they' 'their' used tharter than the london hi/they or 'hir'
- Durin this period
- Men coming into power, som of the from other parts of the countyor from lower levels of society
- Printing began in 1470's, which began to stabilise process
- Wynke de Worde
- First printer to set up on Fleet Street
- First man to build a book stall in St. Paul's Churchyard
- Allowed for accesable knowledge for general public, more complicated words being used
- Helped process of distribution.
- Richard Pynson (1448 Normandy - 1529)
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