CONGRESS CANCELED Contacts, Encounters, Exchanges: Languages and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean
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The Medieval Mediterranean was undoubtedly a multilingual space. An area in which languages such as Catalan, Castilian, Occitan, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic coexisted but were often used, within the same community, in different contexts and for different purposes. For this panel we sough papers on the political use of language in the Medieval Mediterranean, particularly as a tool for (de)legitimizing cultural, social, political, and economic identities. In particular, we seek papers analyzing concrete examples of linguistic contacts, encounters, and exchanges, in order to explore the crucial role that linguistic frontiers and linguistic (dis)continuity played in the Mediterranean area during the Middle Ages in defending/questioning/redefining existing cultural and collective identities, as well as in fomenting the emergence of entirely new ones. John A. Bollweg
CONGRESS CANCELED Contacts, Encounters, Exchanges: Languages and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean
Fetzer 1060
The Medieval Mediterranean was undoubtedly a multilingual space. An area in which languages such as Catalan, Castilian, Occitan, French, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic coexisted but were often used, within the same community, in different contexts and for different purposes. For this panel we sough papers on the political use of language in the Medieval Mediterranean, particularly as a tool for (de)legitimizing cultural, social, political, and economic identities. In particular, we seek papers analyzing concrete examples of linguistic contacts, encounters, and exchanges, in order to explore the crucial role that linguistic frontiers and linguistic (dis)continuity played in the Mediterranean area during the Middle Ages in defending/questioning/redefining existing cultural and collective identities, as well as in fomenting the emergence of entirely new ones. John A. Bollweg