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Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe : Education, Sociability, and Governance /

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early const...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Frijhoff, Willem (Editor ), Rjeoutski, Vladislav (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction; Vladislav Rjeoutski and Willem Frijhoff; Learning Vernaculars, Learning in Vernaculars; The Role of Modern Languages in Nicolas Le Gras's noble academy and in teaching practices for the nobility (France, 1640-c.1750); Andrea Bruschi (Università di Verona); Dutch foreign language use and education after 1750; Routines and innovations; Willem Frijhoff (Erasmus University, Rotterdam); Practice and functions of French as a second language in a Dutch patrician family; The van Hogendorp family (eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries)
  • A comparison between the Holy Roman Empire and the Governorate of Estonia (Estonia)Michael Rocher; Latin in the education of nobility in Russia: The history of a defeat; Vladislav Rjeoutski (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau); Latin as the language of the orthodox clergy in eighteenth-century Russia; Ekaterina Kislova (Moscow State University); Index
  • Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau (University of Leiden) (Translated by Mary Robitaille-Ibbett)Multilingualism versus proficiency in the German language among the administrative elites of the Kingdom of Hungary in the eighteenth century; Olga Khavanova (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow); Voices in a country divided; Linguistic choices in early modern Croatia; Ivana Horbec and Maja Matasović (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb); Introducing the teaching of foreign languages in grammar schools