Latin and Three Vernaculars in East Central Europe from the Point of View of the History of Social Communication
Anna Adamska
The linguistic situation of medieval Europe has sometimes been characterized as one diglossia: learned language, Latin, was used for religion, law, and documents, while the various vernaculars were in other registers. Informing relationship between Latin choice language Western Roman Empire Church. This entailed possibility a shared literary culture heritage across Europe, but also had consequences access to that heritage. Scholarship on Romance languages contested relevance term diglossia, divergence written or spoken is subject energetic debate. In areas, too, questions have voiced. How can characterize interaction vernaculars, themselves? To what extent could speakers from separate worlds communicate? These are fundamental anyone concerned with communication, transmission learning, history, cultural Middle Ages. volume contains contributions by historians, students texts, linguistics, addressing their perspectives at same time trying overcome familiar disciplinary divisions.
Utrecht studies in medieval literacy