edited by Willem Frijhoff, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle and Karène Sanchez-Summerer
Amsterdam University Press, 2017
eISBN: 978-90-485-3000-7 | Cloth: 978-94-6298-061-7
Library of Congress Classification P115.5.E85M8745 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.446094

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Before the modern nation-state became a stable, widespread phenomenon throughout northern Europe, multilingualism-the use of multiple languages in one geographical area-was common throughout the region. This book brings together historians and linguists, who apply their respective analytic tools to offer an interdisciplinary interpretation of the functions of multilingualism in identity-building in the period, and, from that, draw valuable lessons for understanding today's cosmopolitan societies.