Orthographies in early modern Europe / / edited by Susan Baddeley, Anja Voeste.

• TeilnehmendeR: Baddeley, Susan.; Voeste, Anja.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front matter --; Contents --; Introduction. Orthographies in Early Modern Europe: A comparative view /; Variation and standardization in the history of Spanish spelling /; Italian orthography in Early Modern times /; French orthography in the 16th century /; Variable focusing in English spelling between 1400 and 1600 /; The emergence of suprasegmental spellings in German /; Variable norms in 16th-century Swedish orthography /; The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century /; Religion and diacritics: The case of Czech orthography /; On the creation of Croatian: The development of Croatian Latin orthography in the 16th century /; 16th-century Hungarian orthography /; Standardization of Finnish orthography: From reformists to national awakeners /; Index Rerum --; Index Nominum
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9786613941268; 3110288176; 1283628813
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Susan Baddeley, Anja Voeste.

This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period.