Orthographies in early modern Europe / edited by Susan Baddeley, Anja Voeste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baddeley, Susan, Editor.

Contributor:

Baddeley, Susan.

Voeste, Anja.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Writing--Europe--History.

Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

Berlin Boston De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Susan Baddeley, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, and Anja Voeste, University of Gießen, Germany.

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. Orthographies in Early Modern Europe: A comparative view / Baddeley, Susan / Voeste, Anja

Variation and standardization in the history of Spanish spelling / Llamas Pombo, Elena

Italian orthography in Early Modern times / Michel, Andreas

French orthography in the 16th century / Baddeley, Susan

Variable focusing in English spelling between 1400 and 1600 / Nevalainen, Terttu

The emergence of suprasegmental spellings in German / Voeste, Anja

Variable norms in 16th-century Swedish orthography / Zheltukhin, Alexander

The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century / Bunčić, Daniel

Religion and diacritics: The case of Czech orthography / Berger, Tilman

On the creation of Croatian: The development of Croatian Latin orthography in the 16th century / Marti, Roland

16th-century Hungarian orthography / Korompay, Klára

Standardization of Finnish orthography: From reformists to national awakeners / Nordlund, Taru

Index Rerum

Index Nominum

Notes:

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ISBN:

9786613941268

9783110288179

3110288176

9781283628815

1283628813

OCLC:

811963070

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access