Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces by Mullen, Alex

Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198888956)

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Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces by Mullen, Alex

Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces

$155.00
Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces by Mullen, Alex

Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces

$155.00
Format: Hardcover
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Languages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wrote, read, and spoke Latin and other languages. Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Gaul, the Germanies, Britain and Ireland. The chapters collected in this volume help us to understand better the embeddedness, or not, of Latin, at different social levels and across provinces, to consider (socio)linguistic variegation, bi-/multi-lingualism, and attitudes towards languages, and to confront the complex role of language in the communities, identities, and cultures of the later- and post-imperial Roman western world.

This volume will be accompanied by two further volumes from the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project: Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West and Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West.

Author: Alex Mullen
ISBN-10: 0198888953
ISBN-13: 9780198888956
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2024
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d
By Alex Mullen
By Alex Mullen
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Alex Mullen, Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham, George Woudhuysen, Assistant Professor in Roman History, University of Nottingham

Alex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls College). She is the author of Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2019), co-author (with Olivia Elder) of The Language of Letters (Cambridge, 2019), and co-editor (with Patrick James) of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012).

George Woudhuysen is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, including The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (Edinburgh, 2023) (with Justin Stover).

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