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Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance.(Book review)
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Renaissance Quarterly
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June 22, 2007
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Lodi Nauta, ed. Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 24. Leuven: Peeters Publishers and Booksellers, 2006. xiv + 224 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. [euro]45. ISBN: 90-429-1757-1.
This stimulating collection of studies, based on the papers presented in a workshop on language and cultural change (Groningen, February, 2004), focuses on the transition from the late medieval to the early modern period. Although it concentrates on language, the content of this work is particularly relevant, not only to specialists in linguistics, but to scholars of many areas ...
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