Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Susan Baddeley and Anja Voeste

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Susan Baddeley, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, and Anja Voeste, University of Gießen, Germany.

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Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Introduction. Orthographies in Early Modern Europe: A comparative view Susan Baddeley and Anja Voeste Open Access Download PDF	1
Variation and standardization in the history of Spanish spelling Elena Llamas Pombo Open Access Download PDF	15
Italian orthography in Early Modern times Andreas Michel Open Access Download PDF	63
French orthography in the 16th century Susan Baddeley Open Access Download PDF	97
Variable focusing in English spelling between 1400 and 1600 Terttu Nevalainen Open Access Download PDF	127
The emergence of suprasegmental spellings in German Anja Voeste Open Access Download PDF	167
Variable norms in 16th-century Swedish orthography Alexander Zheltukhin Open Access Download PDF	193
The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century Daniel Bunčić Open Access Download PDF	219
Religion and diacritics: The case of Czech orthography Tilman Berger Open Access Download PDF	255
On the creation of Croatian: The development of Croatian Latin orthography in the 16th century Roland Marti Open Access Download PDF	269
16th-century Hungarian orthography Klára Korompay Open Access Download PDF	321
Standardization of Finnish orthography: From reformists to national awakeners Taru Nordlund Open Access Download PDF	351
Index Rerum Open Access Download PDF	373
Index Nominum Open Access Download PDF	379

Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

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Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Orthographies in Early Modern Europe: A comparative view

Variation and standardization in the history of Spanish spelling

Italian orthography in Early Modern times

French orthography in the 16th century

Variable focusing in English spelling between 1400 and 1600

The emergence of suprasegmental spellings in German

Variable norms in 16th-century Swedish orthography

The standardization of Polish orthography in the 16th century

Religion and diacritics: The case of Czech orthography

On the creation of Croatian: The development of Croatian Latin orthography in the 16th century

16th-century Hungarian orthography

Standardization of Finnish orthography: From reformists to national awakeners

Index Rerum

Index Nominum