Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance
Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance
edited by Vladislav Rjéoutski and Willem Frijhoff
Amsterdam University Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-90-485-3550-7 | Paper: 978-94-6298-471-4 Library of Congress Classification P140.L256 2018
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups“ranging from the nobility to the peasantry“to develop, express, and mark their identities.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dr Vladislav Rjéoutski is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century Russian and French social and cultural history and the history of education, and author or editor of many works on these subjects.Willem Frijhoff is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at VU University, Amsterdam, and is now G.Ph. Verhagen Professor of Cultural History at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. His scholarly work focuses on cultural, linguistic and religious identities in early modern France, the Netherlands and North America.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Vladislav Rjéoutski & Willem FrijhoffLearning Vernaculars, Learning in Vernaculars. The Role of Modern Languages in Nicolas Le Gras' Noble Academy and in Teaching Practices for the Nobility (France, 1640 - about 1750)Andrea BruschiDutch Foreign Language Use and Education after 1750: Routines and Innovations Willem FrijhoffPractice and Functions of French as a Second Language in a Dutch Patrician Family: The Van Hogendorp Family (Eighteenth - Early Nineteenth Centuries) Madeleine Van Strien-ChardonneauMultilingualism Versus Proficiency in the German Language among Administrative Elites of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Eighteenth Century Olga KhavanovaIntroducing the Teaching of Foreign Languages in Grammar Schools.A Comparison Between the Holy Roman Empire and the Governorate of Estland (Estonia) Michael RocherVoices in a Country Divided: Linguistic Choices in Early Modern Croatia Ivana Horbec & Maja Matasovi?Latin in the Education of Nobility in Russia: The History of a Defeat Vladislav RjéoutskiLatin as the Language of the Orthodox Clergy in Eighteenth-Century Russia Ekaterina KislovaIndex