Language & power in the early Middle ages

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

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.

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

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Publication Date:c2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brandeis University Press
Place of Publication:Waltham, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2013.

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"Historical Society of Israel."

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Description:1 online resource (ix, 124 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781611683929, 1611683920, 1611683912, 9781299050532, 1299050530, 1611683904, 9781611683912, 9781611683905
oclc:ocn828743794
LC Classification:P41
Dewey Decimal:401

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

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Early works HISTORY ; General Langage et culture Langage et histoire Language and culture Language and history Language and languages -- Philosophy LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General Middle Ages Moyen Âge