Author | : Susan Baddeley |
File Size | : 49,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 30 July 2012 |
ISBN | : 9783110288179 |
Pages | : 389 pages |
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe by Susan Baddeley Book PDF 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.