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.
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ISBN
9781611683929
Publisert
2021
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Brandeis University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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