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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction. Orthographies in Early Modern Europe: A comparative view / Baddeley, Susan / Voeste, Anja -- Variation and standardization in the history of Spanish spelling / Llamas Pombo, Elena -- Italian orthography in Early Modern times / Michel, Andreas -- French orthography in the 16th century / Baddeley, Susan -- Variable focusing in English spelling between 1400 and 1600 / Nevalainen, Terttu -- The emergence of suprasegmental spellings in German / Voeste, Anja -- Variable norms in 16th-century Swedish orthography / Zheltukhin, Alexander -- The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century / Bunčić, Daniel -- Religion and diacritics: The case of Czech orthography / Berger, Tilman -- On the creation of Croatian: The development of Croatian Latin orthography in the 16th century / Marti, Roland -- 16th-century Hungarian orthography / Korompay, Klára -- Standardization of Finnish orthography: From reformists to national awakeners / Nordlund, Taru -- Index Rerum -- Index Nominum