TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haar,Alisa van de
TI  - The golden mean of languages: forging Dutch and French in the early modern low countries (1540-1620) 
T2  - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
SN  - 9789004408593
AV  - P115.5.N47 H23 2019
U1  - 306.44/609492 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Dutch language
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - French language
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Multilingualism
N1  - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: fascinating multilingualism -- The multilingual low countries -- Trending topics in European language reflection -- French schools -- Calvinist churches -- Printing houses -- Chambers of rhetoric -- Conclusions
N2  - "In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French has been studied mainly from monolingual perspectives tracing the development towards modern Dutch or French. Van de Haar shows that the discussions on these languages were rooted in multilingual environments, in particular in French schools, Calvinist churches, printing houses, and chambers of rhetoric. The proposals that were formulated there to forge Dutch and French into useful forms were not directed solely at uniformization but were much more diverse"
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004408593
ER  -