The present study sets out to trace a linguistic history of the
institution 'university' from the 12th to the late 18th century,
concentrating on the later stages and the transition from Latin to
German as the central medium of academic communication (lectures
and scholarly writing). Drawing upon the history of universities in
general and sources relating to Freiburg (Breisgau) from the 14th
to the 18th century in particular, it is possible to demonstrate
that the university was already a 'bilingual' institution in the
Middle Ages and that the transition to the vernacular in the 18th
century was accompanied both by a change in its social function
(from autonomous corporation to state institution) and a charge in
styles of thinking (from a scholastic handing-down of established
unassailable knowledge to an enlightened concern with the utility
of scientific and scholarly endeavour).
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