The English language has changed completely in the course of a thousand years, due to both historical events and language-internal processes. This course offers an introduction to the rich history of ...

The history of the English language can be conveniently divided into three steps: Old English, Middle English and Modern English. Old English used a lot of words from Scandinavian and from Latin ...

Ever wondered how English – with 1.5 billion speakers in all corners of the world and approximately 750,000 words – came to be the wonderfully expressive and multifaceted language it is today? Unlike ...

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This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476–1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton's first press in England and concluding with the American ...

It’s not just language, either. How about the castles that dot the English landscape, and are such cherished symbols of English history? Again, thank the French for that. Specifically, the Norman army ...

We explore all periods of the history of the English language, from Old English to the present day, and examine the development and use of varieties of spoken and written English, both globally and ...