Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular - Inger Larsson
The Swedish Example
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2009Uitgever: Brepols Publishers250 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503527477ISBN-13: 9782503527475Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in the 1350s, an event which established Swedish as the language of the judiciary and judicial records. From this period written documentation was gradually inte...