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The multilingual city, c. 1250 – c. 1800
La ville plurilingue, vers 1250 – vers 1800
Historical approaches
Approches historiennes
Published on Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Abstract
Cities are multilingual, but histories of the premodern city too rarely think in detail about the workings of language in urban communities and environments. At the same time, the social history of language has rarely taken into account the spatial dimension of multilingualism in the past. As a centre of political, cultural, and intellectual life, as well as a site of cultural exchange, the city has long been a place of linguistic encounter and of language change, as historical sociolinguists have shown. This workshop will bring historians together to consider multilingualism as a social fact, and to explore the relationship between multilingualism and the development of the premodern city.
Announcement
Presentation
Cities are multilingual, but histories of the premodern city too rarely think in detail about the workings of language in urban communities and environments. At the same time, the social history of language has rarely taken into account the spatial dimension of multilingualism in the past. As a centre of political, cultural, and intellectual life, as well as a site of cultural exchange, the city has long been a place of linguistic encounter and of language change, as historical sociolinguists have shown. This workshop will bring historians together to consider multilingualism as a social fact, and to explore the relationship between multilingualism and the development of the premodern city.
Convenors
Ulrike Krampl (Tours) & John Gallagher (Leeds)
Participation
Online
Programme
All times are GMT – Les horaires indiqués sont ceux du Royaume-Uni
- 10.45 – 11 Logging on and coffee
- 11 – 11.15 Welcome Ulrike Krampl (Tours) & John Gallagher (Leeds)
11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1 : Spaces of knowledge and power
- Richard Calis (Cambridge), ‘Multilingual encounters in early modern Germany’
- Vladislav Rjéoutski (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moscow) & Tatiana Kostina, (St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences), ‘Boarding schools and language communities of St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century’
- Christopher Joby (UAM Poznan), ‘Governing the multilingual city’
12.45 – 2 Lunch
2 – 3.30 Panel 2: Law, order, and the multilingual city
- Melissa Vise (Washington & Lee), ‘From Speaking to Writing Crime: Patterns of Prosecution in the Late Medieval Italian City’
- Amélie Marineau-Pelletier (Ottawa & EHESS), ‘Authentifier, rédiger et traduire: les clercs d’officialités et notaires jurés au service de la ville de Metz au XVe siècle’
- Cathy Shrank & Phil Withington (Sheffield), ‘Utopia and polyglot cities’
3.30 – 4 Coffee
4 – 5.30 Panel 3: Multilingual communities and networks
- Lisa Demets (Utrecht), ‘Bruges as a multilingual contact zone: book production and multilingual literary networks in fifteenth-century Bruges’
- Jürgen Heyde (GWZO, Leipzig), '‘The Armenians of Lvov do not speak Armenian’: Multilingualism and vernacularization in an early modern migration society’
- Paul Cohen (Toronto), ‘Translation on the waterfront: mediating linguistic difference in French port cities, 16th-18th centuries’
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Mind and language > Language > Linguistics
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Periods > Middle Ages
- Periods > Early modern
- Society > Urban studies
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Society > History > Urban history
Event attendance modalities
Full online event
Date(s)
- Friday, November 05, 2021
Keywords
- plurilinguisme, ville, histoire urbaine, histoire culturelle, Moyen Âge, époque moderne
Contact(s)
- Ulrike Krampl
courriel : ulrike [dot] krampl [at] univ-tours [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Ulrike Krampl
courriel : ulrike [dot] krampl [at] univ-tours [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« The multilingual city, c. 1250 – c. 1800 », Study days, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, https://calenda.org/922788