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Hace 4 días · When William Caxton started printing at Westminster in the late summer of 1476, he was painfully aware of the uncertain state of the English language. In his prologues and epilogues to his translations, he made some revealing observations on the problems that he had encountered as translator and editor.
Hace 4 días · William Caslon, founder of the existing letterfoundry in Chiswell Street, was born in 1692. He first turned his attention to type-founding in 1740, when he was engaged by the Christian Knowledge Society to make the punches for a fount of Arabic type for printing the Psalms and New Testament in that language.
Hace 4 días · Among highlights in the history of the English language, the following stand out most clearly: the settlement in Britain of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles in the 5th and 6th centuries; the arrival of St. Augustine in 597 and the subsequent conversion of England to Latin Christianity; the Viking invasions of the 9th century; the Norman ...
Hace 3 días · After William Caxton introduced the printing press in England in 1476, vernacular literature flourished. The Reformation inspired the production of vernacular liturgy which led to the Book of Common Prayer (1549), a lasting influence on literary language.
Hace 1 día · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire ...
Hace 6 días · In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market.
Hace 6 días · 15th-16th Century. -Shakespeare. -Adoption of Greek into English. -King James Bible (1611) -Growth of the British Empire. 1476. -William Caxton establishes the first printing press and prints the first book. -Increase in importance of London speech. 18th Century era.
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