Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce the publication of a new book which may be of interest to HiSoN members: "Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period", edited by Karen Bennet and Angelo Cattaneo and published by Routledge. The book has chapters on the functional expansion of vernaculars at the expense of Latin as well as the continued use of Latin, multilingualism, language contact, language conflict, lingua francas and language ideology in the early modern period. The languages discussed volume include English, Croatian, French, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Welsh, Breton, New Latin, Lingua franca, Lingua Geral de Mina and Chinese Pidgin English. The book is the first volume of a new Routledge series edited by Karen Bennett on "Multilingualism, Lingua Francas and Translation in the Early Modern Period". 

For more details see: 

https://www.routledge.com/Language-Dynamics-in-the-Early-Modern-Period/Bennett-Cattaneo/p/book/9780367552145

and for the Taylor and Francis e-book: 

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003092445/language-dynamics-early-modern-period-karen-bennett-angelo-cattaneo

A 20% discount for purchasing the printed book (hardback) and e-book from the Routledge website is availble by entering the code FLE22 at the checkout.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Great Upheaval — Multilingualism and Lingua Francas in the Early Modern Period
Karen Bennett

Part 1: Multilingualism and Its Discontents
1. Multilingual Events in Late Medieval Personal Documentary Texts from the Winchester Diocese Collection in 1400–1525
Delia Schipor
2. Croatian Biblical Texts in the Early Modern Period: A Historical-Sociolinguistic Approach to Language Change
Vuk-Tadija Barbarić and Ivana Eterović
3. National Myths and Language Status in Early Modern Wales and Brittany
Oliver Currie
4. Bernardo de Aldrete’s Del origen: Rejecting Multilingualism and Linguistic Essentialism in Early Modern Spain
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
5. Multilingualism and Translation in the Early Modern Low Countries
Theo Hermans

Part 2: The Defence of Latin
6. Should Latin Be Spoken?: The Controversy Between Sanctius Brocensis, Henry Jason and the Irish Jesuits of Salamanca
Eustaquio Sánchez Salor
7. Pro lingua Latina: Girolamo Lagomarsini's Oration in Defence of Latin in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Juan Maria Gómez Gómez
8. Petropolis: The Place of Latin in Early Modern Russia
Brian Bennett

Part 3: Pidgins, Jargons, Lingua Francas
9. On the Existence of a Mediterranean Lingua Franca and the Persistence of Language Myths
Joshua Brown
10. Immortal Passados: Early Modern England’s Italianate Fencing Jargon on Page and Stage
Laetitia Sansonetti
11. Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity in Peixoto’s Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741)
Christina Märzhäuser and Enrique Rodrigues-Moura
12. "Long Time No See": The Use of Chinese Pidgin English as a Cultural Identity Symbol by the Canton Anglophone Trading Community
Rogério Miguel Puga

Epilogue: Developing Historical Linguistic Awareness in a Multilingual World
Angelo Cattaneo


Best regards,

Oliver Currie

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