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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Wiles Lectures
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In this magisterial new study, Peter Burke explores the social and
cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe
between the invention of printing and the French Revolution,
arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should
be regarded as a distinct period. One major theme of the book is
the relation between languages and communities (regions, churches,
occupations and genders as well as nations) and the place of
language as a way of identifying others as well as a symbol of
one's own identity. A second, linked theme is that of competition:
between Latin and the vernaculars, between different vernaculars,
dominant and subordinate, and finally between different varieties
of the same vernacular, such as standard languages and dialects.
Written by one of Europe's leading cultural historians, this book
restores the history of the many languages of Europe in a large
variety of contexts.
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