Peter Burke (University of Cambridge)

Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies and discusses major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. It examines, in particular, the relationship between languages and communities, and between language and identity. A unique, pan-European study.

Produktdetails

• The Wiles Lectures
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780521535861
• ISBN-10: 0521535867
• Artikelnr.: 20992852

Autorenporträt

Peter Burke was, from 1962-79, one of the leading educational innovators in developing the inter-disciplinary School of European Studies at University of Sussex. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is celebrated world-wide as a historian both of the early modern era and as a writer and teacher who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married to Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: communities and domains
1. 'Speak, that I may see thee': the discovery of language in early modern Europe
2. Latin: a language in search of a community
3. Vernaculars in competition
4. Standardizing languages
5. Mixing languages
6. Purifying languages
Epilogue: languages and nations
Appendix.