A Hearth Library collection
The Story of English
Everyday English from the Old English schoolroom to Shakespeare's farm
Remedies, recipes, chronicles, farming verse and school dialogues in Old, Middle and Early Modern English, each with a modern simplified version. The same everyday words in every stage of the language, for reading and for the History of Language games on Hearth Games, where these passages are the evidence behind Word Passport and Then or Now?
Sources
Annals
A year in a sentence: entries from the Chronicle
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for 802–1154; the Peterborough copy written about 1121–1155, Peterborough
Old EnglishChecked
Food, farming and hungerLanguages and wordsRulers and courts
Manual
What to do on the farm each month
Tusser, 1580 edition; first printed, as a hundred points, in 1557, Cattiwade, Suffolk
Early Modern EnglishChecked
Food, farming and hungerWork and wagesLanguages and words
Recipes
Recipes from the king's kitchen
Richard II's cooks, about 1390, as Pegge dated the roll, London
Middle EnglishChecked
Food, farming and hungerLanguages and words
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