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Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts

Case Studies from Ireland to Japan
  • Edited by: Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022
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Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex whole. This volume seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent elements.

Case studies are presented of twelve manuscripts with evidence for various levels of inter-language exchange and collision, from horizons as diverse as the Atlantic West, Carolingian Europe, the Byzantine world, the Silk Road cultures, and east Asia. The essays function individually as discrete contributions, but together they highlight a range of overlapping themes, illustrating language interaction in global religions, pedagogical exchange, and secular society-building.The analogies as well as the concrete points of connection between them underline the value of a cross-disciplinary approach.

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Michael Clarke, NUI, Galway, Republic of Ireland; Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Univers. of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.


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Michael Clarke and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
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Language Interaction and Education

John Whitman
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Pádraic Moran
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Lars Nooij and Peter Schrijver
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Sam van Schaik
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Language Interaction and Religion

Imre Galambos
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Michael Rand
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Michael Clarke
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Christian Høgel
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Language Interaction and Constructing Polities

Cillian O’Hogan
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Camillo A. Formigatti
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Vincenzo Vergiani
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Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
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eBook published on:
April 4, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110776492
Hardcover published on:
April 18, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110775990
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
240
Illustrations:
8
Coloured Illustrations:
63
Line drawings:
3
Tables:
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