TY - BOOK ID - 21348 TI - Orthographies in Early Modern Europe AU - Baddeley, Susan AU - Voeste, Anja PY - 2012 SN - 9783110288124 9783110288179 DB - DOAB KW - Linguistics KW - Historical Linguistics UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:21348 AB - 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. ER -