{"product_id":"ms-digby-133-mary-magdalene","title":"MS Digby 133 «Mary Magdalene»","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe MS 133 Digby \u003ci\u003eMary Magdalene \u003c\/i\u003ehas commonly been investigated by paying attention to literary features, while linguistic aspects have seldom been taken into consideration, with the result that any deviation from the norm has been classified as scribal inconsistency. However, what has been regarded as scribal carelessness actually seems to be a modern misunderstanding of scribal practices. Indeed, the significant combination of Southern, Midlands and Northern elements featuring in the language of \u003ci\u003eMary Magdalene \u003c\/i\u003eis the result of the scribe’s desire to faithfully reproduce the author’s design, in which variants may have a marked social function. We can thus infer that the \u003ci\u003eMary Magdalene \u003c\/i\u003eauthor probably created a sort of biblical \u003ci\u003ekoiné\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eshared with the audience, which was realized with the linguistic varieties offered by the existing late Middle English dialects and clearly exploited not only for poetic but also, and above all, for religious purposes. At the same time, the text puts an innovative emphasis on the figure of Mary Magdalene, who simultaneously plays the role of sinner and saint, virgin and prostitute, female and male. Thanks to the methodological approach of this volume, the author shows that most unusual forms are diatopic and diastratic alternatives used in specific religious contexts to realize well-defined sociolinguistic purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225339482456,"sku":"9783034332569","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783034332569.jpg?v=1764790224","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ms-digby-133-mary-magdalene","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}