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Language & power in the early Middle ages /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waltham, Mass. :
Brandeis University Press,
c2013.
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| Colección: | Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | "Historical Society of Israel." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 124 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-115) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611683929 1611683920 1611683912 9781299050532 1299050530 1611683904 9781611683912 9781611683905 |