Brill is publishing a new book on
the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is the first major study of
the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records.
Building on previous work on the uses of the written word in the early Middle
Ages, which has dispelled the myth that this was an age of ‘orality’, the
contributions in this volume bring to the fore the crucial question of language
choice in the documentary cultures of early medieval societies. Specifically,
they examine the interactions between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in the
Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds and in neighbouring areas. The chapters
are underpinned by an important comparative dimension on account of the two
regions’ shared linguistic heritage and numerous cross-Channel links.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Robert Gallagher is
Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Kent. His primary
research focus is the politics and textual cultures of early medieval Britain,
with special interests in documentary activity, multilingualism, Latin verse,
and manuscript use.
Edward Roberts is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the
University of Kent. He specializes in the history of Carolingian and Ottonian
Europe, with particular interests in historical writing, legal culture,
charters, bishops, and institutional change.
Francesca Tinti is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University
of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. She has published widely on early medieval
religious, social, and cultural history, with a special focus on Anglo-Saxon
England, its documentary culture, and its relations with the European
continent.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
1 Latin and Germanic Vernaculars
in Early Medieval Documentary Cultures: Towards a Multidisciplinary Comparative
Approach
Francesca Tinti
2 Charters, Languages, and
Communication: Recent Work on Early Medieval Literacy
Rosamond McKitterick
3 The Multilingualism of the
Early Middle Ages: Evidence from Peripheral Regions of the Regnum orientalium
Francorum
Wolfgang Haubrichs
4 Germanic Names, Vernacular
Sounds, and Latin Spellings in Early Anglo-Saxon and Alemannic Charters
Annina Seiler
5 Language, Formulae, and
Carolingian Reforms: the Case of the Alemannic Charters from St Gall
Bernhard Zeller
6 Signalling Language Choice in
Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Charters, c.700–c.900
Edward Roberts and Francesca
Tinti
7 The Endorsement Practices of
Early Medieval England
Robert Gallagher and Kate Wiles
8 Traces of Bilingualism in Early
Medieval Northern Italy: the Evidence from Eighth- and Ninth-Century Private
Charters
Marco Stoffella
9 Languages of Boundaries and
Boundaries of Language in Cornish Charters
Charles Insley
10 Vernacular Writing in Early
Medieval Manorial Administration: Two Tenth-Century Documents from Werden and
Essen
Stefan Esders
11 Royal Authority, Regional
Integrity: the Function and Use of Anglo-Saxon Writ Formulae
Albert Fenton
12 From Memorandum to Written
Record: Function and Formality in Old English Non-Literary Texts
Kathryn A. Lowe
13 Writing, Communication, and Currency:
Dialogues between Coinage and Charters in Anglo-Saxon England
Rory Naismith
14 Epilogue
Janet L. Nelson
Index
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