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Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
Author(s): Baddeley
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 26 Oct. 2017
- Language: English
- Print length: 392 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110288125
- ISBN-13: 9783110288124
Book Description
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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About the Author
Susan Baddeley, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, and Anja Voeste, University of Gießen, Germany.
