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Language & power in the early Middle ages / Patrick J. Geary.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Menahem Stern Jerusalem lecturesPublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2013.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 124 p.)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611683929
  • 1611683920
  • 1611683912
  • 9781299050532
  • 1299050530
  • 1611683904
  • 9781611683912
  • 9781611683905
Other title:
  • Language and power in the early Middle ages
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language & power in the early Middle agesDDC classification:
  • 401 23
LOC classification:
  • P41
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Contents:
Inventing the Linguistic Monuments of Europe -- Religion and Language -- Vernacular Language and Secular Power in Emerging Europe.
Summary: The author introduces a discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian sacred texts and administrative documents, and the rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom.Summary: Language and ideology in the scholarship of the late Middle Ages.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-115) and index.

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Inventing the Linguistic Monuments of Europe -- Religion and Language -- Vernacular Language and Secular Power in Emerging Europe.

The author introduces a discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian sacred texts and administrative documents, and the rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom.

Language and ideology in the scholarship of the late Middle Ages.

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