Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 December 2023
- ISBN 9780198888956
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 738 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 colour and 18 black-and-white illustrations 466
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Short description:
This volume provides a collection of chapters by a multidisciplinary collection of experts on the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west. It offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features, and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wrote, read, and spoke Latin and other languages. Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Gaul, the Germanies, Britain and Ireland. The chapters collected in this volume help us to understand better the embeddedness, or not, of Latin, at different social levels and across provinces, to consider (socio)linguistic variegation, bi-/multi-lingualism, and attitudes towards languages, and to confront the complex role of language in the communities, identities, and cultures of the later- and post-imperial Roman western world.
This volume will be accompanied by two further volumes from the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project: Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West and Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West.
It provides a first point of departure for understanding the linguistic situation of the Roman West in Late Antiquity and the post-imperial period, particularly with regard to the fate of Latin. We can therefore only rejoice at the publication of such an ambitious and at the same time illuminating volume, which will certainly serve as an impetus for further re-search.
Table of Contents:
Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West
North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
Languages and Communities in Late Antique and Early Medieval North Africa
Reflections on the Latin Language Spoken and Written in Visigothic Hispania
Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
Gaul and the Germanies
Gaulish in the Late Empire (c. 200 600 CE)
Registers of Latin in Gaul from the Fifth to the Seventh Century
Death and Survival of Latin in the Empire West of the Rhine (Belgicae, Germaniae) and the Rise of the Frankish-Theodisc Languages
Ireland and Britain
Early Literacy and Multilingualism in Ireland and Britain
The Romance of Early Britain: Latin, British and English, c. 400 600
A Critical Afterword
