Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe

Peter Burke explores major themes in the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution. One theme is the relation between languages and communities 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, different vernaculars, dominant and subordinate, and different varieties of the same vernacular.

Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/16/2004
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.42w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780521535861

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1396

About the Author
Burke, Peter: - Peter Burke is Professor of Cultural History and a Fellow of Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge. He has published over twenty books which have been translated into over thirty languages.

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