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This volume provides a collection of chapters by a multidisciplinary collection of experts on the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west. It offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features, and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment.
List of contents
- 1: Alex Mullen And George Woudhuysen: Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West
- North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
- 2: Jonathan P. Conant: Languages and Communities in Late Antique and Early Medieval North Africa
- 3: Isabel Velázquez: Reflections on the Latin Language Spoken and Written in Visigothic Hispania
- 4: Graham Barrett: Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia
- Gaul and the Germanies
- 5: Alderik Blom: Gaulish in the Late Empire (c. 200 600 CE)
- 6: Ian Wood: Registers of Latin in Gaul from the Fifth to the Seventh Century
- 7: Wolfgang Haubrichs: Death and Survival of Latin in the Empire West of the Rhine (Belgicae, Germaniae) and the Rise of the Frankish-Theodisc Languages
- Ireland and Britain
- 8: David Stifter and Nora White, with a contribution By Katherine Forsyth: Early Literacy and Multilingualism in Ireland and Britain
- 9: David Parsons: The Romance of Early Britain: Latin, British and English, c. 400 600
- 10: Paul Russell: A Critical Afterword
About the author
Alex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls College). She is the author of Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2019), co-author (with Olivia Elder) of The Language of Letters (Cambridge, 2019), and co-editor (with Patrick James) of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012).
George Woudhuysen is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, including The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (Edinburgh, 2023) (with Justin Stover).
Summary
This volume provides a collection of chapters by a multidisciplinary collection of experts on the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west. It offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features, and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment.
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It provides a first point of departure for understanding the linguistic situation of the Roman West in Late Antiquity and the post-imperial period, particularly with regard to the fate of Latin. We can therefore only rejoice at the publication of such an ambitious and at the same time illuminating volume, which will certainly serve as an impetus for further re-search.
