{"product_id":"learning-languages-in-early-modern-england-9780198837909","title":"Learning Languages in Early Modern England","description":"In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearning Languages in Early Modern England\u003c\/em\u003e is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with\u003cbr\u003ethe wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, \u003cem\u003eLearning Languages\u003c\/em\u003e explores how early modern English-speakers learned and\u003cbr\u003eused foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation\u003cbr\u003emanuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLearning Languages\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological\u003cbr\u003eand thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Gallagher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198837909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gallagher, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Early Modern History, University of Leeds\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Gallagher was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. After holding a Research Fellowship in History at Gonville \u0026amp; Caius College, Cambridge, he became Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leeds in 2017. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRenaissance Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Italianist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuntington Library Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and others. He is a BBC\/AHRC New Generation Thinker and a frequent contributor to radio and print media.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932117418099,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0b0e5d9b-7692-4368-bf9a-f7103ae0270c.jpg?v=1647790483","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/learning-languages-in-early-modern-england-9780198837909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}