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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 December 2009
      16 September 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511617362
      9780521828963
      9780521535861
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617362
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 226 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.363kg, 226 Pages
      • Series:
      The Wiles Lectures
      Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    Series:
    The Wiles Lectures
    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, History of Ideas, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    In this magisterial 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.

    Reviews

    '… a historian of the first rank, a prolific pioneer of the study of 'cultural history'. This typically brilliant survey of European languages between the invention of printing and the French Revolution began as a series of lectures at Queen's University Belfast … This is serious history deserving of a wide readership.'

    Source: BBC History

    ‘Peter Burke paints a broad canvas with assurance and virtuosity …‘

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    'This is a rich and illuminating book, full of insight and often surprising detail. Its strengths lie above all in its diversity - in Burke's ability to offer a close-up of, say, the colonial presence of Portuguese or the decline of Catalan, while also moving happily among a whole range of different languages and writers. … rewarding and insightful …'

    Source: Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development

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