今朝の Voicy heldio にて「#1670. 英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む (63-1) with Taku さん --- helwa 忘年会より」をお届けしました．先週末に開催されたリモートでの helwa 忘年会にて，対談収録したものです．
　今回も，ヘルメイトの Taku さんこと金田拓さん（帝京科学大学）に進行を担当していただき，B&C の第63節の最初の8文をじっくりと精読しています．話題は，10世紀末のイングランドにおける The Benedictine Reform （ベネディクト改革）です．今回の箇所は，その改革に至るまでの背景を描写しています．
　では，今回の精読対象の英文を掲載しましょう（Baugh and Cable, p. 83) ．

The flourishing state of the church that resulted in these significant additions to the English language unfortunately did not continue uninterrupted. One cause of the decline is to be attributed to the Danes, who at the end of the eighth century began their ravages upon the country. Lindisfarne was burnt in 793, and Jarrow, Bede's monastery, was plundered the following year. In the ninth century throughout Northumbria and Mercia, churches and monasteries lay everywhere in ruins. By the tenth century, the decline had affected the moral fiber of the church. It would seem as though once success had been attained and a reasonable degree of security, the clergy relaxed their efforts. Wealthy men had given land freely to religious foundations in the hope of laying up spiritual reserves for themselves against the life in the next world. Among the clergy poverty gave way to ease, and ease by a natural transition passed into luxury.

　この続編の heldio 回も収録済みですので，近々に配信する予定です．B&C読書会の過去回については「#5291. heldio の「英語史の古典的名著 Baugh and Cable を読む」シリーズが順調に進んでいます」 ([2023-10-22-1]) をご覧ください．

　・ Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. 6th ed. London: Routledge, 2013.

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