IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 712: Languages and Literacy in the Early Medieval West, III: Germanic Vernaculars in Continental Charters
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Project 'The Languages of Early Medieval Charters', Universidad del País Vasco |
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Organisers: | Edward Roberts, Department of History, University of Liverpool / Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz |
Moderator/Chair: | Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Paper 712-a | Traces of Bilingualism in Early Medieval Northern Italy: The Evidence from Private Charters, 8th-10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Paper 712-b | The Use of the Vernacular in Fulda and Freising Charters, c. 770 - c. 900 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Paper 712-c | Germanic Names in Latin Charters: Reflections on the Saint-Gall Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Abstract | In the Anglo-Saxon and eastern Frankish worlds, Latin was not the language of everyday speech; it needed to be learned as a second or foreign language. Multilingual and vernacular texts from these regions thus enable us to pose questions about literacy, the relationship between written and oral communication, language choice, and code-switching. The papers in this third session all explore the interplay between Latin and the vernacular in charters from Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, concentrating on ecclesiastical archives in Northern Italy, the cartularies of Fulda and Freising, and the rich charter collection of St Gall. |