Authority and identity :

Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-

Authority and identity : a sociolinguistic history of Europe before the modern age / Robert McColl Millar. - New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - viii, 247 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sociology of language : an introduction --
Linguistic prehistory --
The first European literacies --
The first hegemonies --

Centrifugal and centripetal forces : late antiquity and the early medieval period --


Competing hegemonies : the high middle ages --

The birth of the modern? : the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries --




Studies the history of literacy in Europe (Greek, then Latin, then various vernaculars), and the importance of literacy to formation of ethnic identities and nation-states.

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English language
Historical linguistics.
English language--History.--Grammar, Historical.

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