What is it about?
The volume, Language choice in Enlightenment Europe, offers a significant contribution to the field of study of ‘social history of language’. All of the volume’s articles aim to refute “the traditional image of the monolingual character of the world of the Ancien Régime by showing the unexpected riches of multi- and plurilingualism, the competition between languages and the impact of languages on national consciousness and vice versa” (p. 8).
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Perspectives
We think that this book can be interesting for specialists of different fields (e.g. history of education, social history of language, experts in the Enlightenment) and, in particular, for historians of Eastern Europe.
Elisabetta Patrizi
Universita degli Studi di Macerata
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This page is a summary of: Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe. Education, Sociability, and Governance, by Vladislav Rjéoutski, Willem Frijhoff (eds.), Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, 232 pp., € 85.00 (hardback), ISBN 9789462984714, Paedagogica Historica, November 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2018.1538254.
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