Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

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Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages

Name: Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781611683905

Patrick J. Geary

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The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian sacred texts and administrative documents, and the rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom. This is a fascinating look at the weakness of language as a force for unity: ideology, church authority, and emerging secular power always trumped language.

Kategori:

Languages - Grammar, dictionaries & phrasebooks

Tahun:

2013

Penerbit:

Brandeis

Bahasa:

english

Halaman:

136

ISBN 10:

1611683904