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Alastair Matthews
Medieval Denmark and its Languages
The Case for a More Open Literary Historiography
This chapter makes the case for a literary history that accounts for the multilingual nature of medieval Denmark, giving particular attention to Danish, German, and Latin. It relates such a project to current research interests such as crossing the boundaries of national philologies; demonstrates the need for it by reviewing existing surveys of the period; and outlines some lines of enquiry, including the translation and transmission of texts, that it could pursue.
Keywords: Danish; Denmark; German; Latin; literary history; Low German; Middle Ages
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Medieval Denmark and its Languages
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The Case for a More Open Literary Historiography
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Alastair Matthews
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This chapter makes the case for a literary history that accounts for the multilingual nature of medieval Denmark, giving particular attention to Danish, German, and Latin. It relates such a project to current research interests such as crossing the boundaries of national philologies; demonstrates the need for it by reviewing existing surveys of the period; and outlines some lines of enquiry, including the translation and transmission of texts, that it could pursue.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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19 April 2022
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Danish
Denmark
German
Latin
literary history
Low German
Middle Ages
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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103
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123
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Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 103–23
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Cite as:
Alastair Matthews, ‘Medieval Denmark and its Languages: The Case for a More Open Literary Historiography’, in Openness in Medieval Europe, ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum, Cultural Inquiry, 23 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 103-23 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_06>