Orthographies in early modern Europe / / 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 natio...

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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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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