Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized elites discovered the existence of multiple other languages in the world and attempted to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized elites discovered the existence of multiple other languages in the world and attempted to incorporate their speakers meaningfully into the holistic and distinctly Christian picture of the universe.
Yuliya Minets is an Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Jacksonville State University.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity; 2. Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity; 3. The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguistic Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification; 4. Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity; 5. Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness; 6. The Languages of Saints and Demons.
1. Meeting the Alloglottic Other: The Socio-Linguistic Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Spread of Christianity; 2. Languages and Identities in Greco-Roman and Jewish Antiquity; 3. The Tower of Babel and Beyond: Primordial Linguistic Situation, Original Language, and the Start of Linguistic Diversification; 4. Speaking in Tongues in Christian Late Antiquity; 5. Foreign Languages and the Discourse of Otherness; 6. The Languages of Saints and Demons.
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