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Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages
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Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages Paperback - 2013

by Patrick J. Geary

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The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history of the early Middle Ages. He includes a fascinating discussion of the rush by nationalist philologists to rediscover the medieval roots of their respective vernaculars, the rivalry between vernacular languages and Latin to act as transmitters of Christian sacred texts and administrative documents, and the rather sloppy and ad hoc emergence in different places of the vernacular as the local administrative idiom. This is a fascinating look at the weakness of language as a force for unity: ideology, church authority, and emerging secular power always trumped language.

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  • Title Language & Power in the Early Middle Ages
  • Author Patrick J. Geary
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brandeis University Press, Waltham MA
  • Publication date 2013
  • ISBN 9781611683912 / 1611683912
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and culture, Middle Ages
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012032043
  • Dewey Decimal Code 401

About the author

PATRICK J. GEARY is the Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at UCLA and currently professor of medieval history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

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