TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geary,Patrick J.
TI  - Language & power in the early Middle ages /Patrick J. Geary
T2  - The Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures
SN  - 9781611683929
AV  - P41 .L364 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Waltham, Mass.
PB  - Brandeis University Press
KW  - Language and history
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "Historical Society of Israel."; 2; Inventing the Linguistic Monuments of Europe --; Religion and Language --; Vernacular Language and Secular Power in Emerging Europe; 2; b
N2  - The author introduces a 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; Language and ideology in the scholarship of the late Middle Ages
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