Anfangsgeschichten / Origin Stories

Der Beginn volkssprachiger Schriftlichkeit in komparatistischer Perspektive / The Rise of Vernacular Literacy in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Elke Krotz Edited by Stephan Müller Edited by Norbert Kössinger Edited by Pavlína Rychterová

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Extent: 402 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Series: MittelalterStudien

Series volume number: 31

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(June 2018)

ISBN: 9783770563463

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $123.00

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From the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, what we know today as the “vernacular languages” developed across Europe. The present volume focuses from a determinedly comparative perspective on the process of the integration of the linguae vernaculae vel barbaricae into the domain of literacy and learning. Exemplary case studies explore the issue of the beginnings of vernacular literacy at the intersection of historical sciences, philology, linguistics, media history, and literary sciences to analyse discernable patterns and norms. In this way, the common and traditional national philological narratives of the respective “Origin Stories of written tradition” are questioned and discussed.

  • Edited by Elke Krotz
  • Edited by Stephan Müller
  • Edited by Norbert Kössinger
  • Edited by Pavlína Rychterová