Orthographies in Early Modern Europe / edited by Susan Baddeley, Anja Voeste.
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern natio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter & Co,
2012.
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| Summary: | This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 383 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110288179 3110288176 |