2. Linguistic Ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the Genesis of Literary Estonian

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 7
4. Preface 9
5. Introduction 11
6. Part I. The Reception of Luther’s Ideas and their Influence for the Development of Written Languages
7. 1. ‘QUAE PESTIS UNQUAM TAM PERNICIOSA INVASIT GREGEM CHRISTI?’ 33
8. 2. Linguistic Ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the Genesis of Literary Estonian 57
9. 3. The Impact of Lutheran Thought on the Polish Literary Language in the 16th Century 79
10. Part II. Effects of Bible Translations on the Evolution of Written Language
11. 4. The Czech Language in Confessional Clashes of the 16th Century 105
12. 5. The Swedish Bible Translations and the Transition from Old Swedish to Early Modern Swedish 129
13. Part III. Reuse of (Catholic) Texts after the Reformation
14. 6. The Infant Jesus and his Mother in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture 151
15. 7. Frühneuzeitliche Summarien 173
16. 8. Early Finnish Translations of the Hymn Te Deum laudamus 191
17. Part IV. Language Contacts and Loanwords
18. 9. Traces of Low German Influence in the Finnish Texts of Mikael Agricola? 217
19. 10. Polyglossia and Nativization 231
20. 11. Medical Discourse in the Oldest Lithuanian Lutheran Texts 253
21. 12. German Influence on the Christian Discourse of Early Written Latvian 273
22. Index 303