Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe : : Education, Sociability, and Governance /

Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe : : Education, Sociability, and Governance / / ed. by Willem Frijhoff, Vladislav Rjéoutski.

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early const...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bruschi, Andrea,
Frijhoff, Willem,
Khavanova, Olga,
Kislova, Ekaterina,
Rjéoutski, Vladislav,
Rocher, Michael,
Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van,
HerausgeberIn:
Frijhoff, Willem,
Rjéoutski, Vladislav,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Languages and culture in history ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 1 line art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table Of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Learning Vernaculars, Learning In Vernaculars
  • Dutch Foreign Language Use And Education After 1750
  • Practice And Functions Of French As A Second Language In A Dutch Patrician Family
  • Multilingualism Versus Proficiency In The German Language Among The Administrative Elites Of The Kingdom Of Hungary In The Eighteenth Century
  • Introducing The Teaching Of Foreign Languages In Grammar Schools
  • Latin In The Education Of Nobility In Russia: The History Of A Defeat
  • Latin As The Language Of The Orthodox Clergy In Eighteenth-Century Russia
  • Index

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