{"product_id":"language-and-history-in-the-early-germanic-world-hardback-9780521471343","title":"Language and History in the Early Germanic World (Hardback) 9780521471343","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage and History in the Early Germanic World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book presents linguistic evidence for many aspects of pre-Christian and early medieval European culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eD. H. Green (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521471343, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 August 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 1 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.85 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'At last, we have an accessible and up-to-date book showing what can be done with language history. The material within Dennis Green's book is authoritative and comprehensive, its style probing and stimulating. The book encompasses a body of information essential to anyone wishing to learn about the character of the period in which the foundations of modern Europe were laid out over and around the ruins of the Roman Empire. For students of any field, it is a fine example of how and why one should make use of a cross-disciplinary approach. There could not be a better basis for understanding how we try to organize and describe our view of this crucial historical period than contemplating how the people of that era grappled with the same challenges.' John Hines, Cardiff University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity and with early Christianity. It brings together linguistic evidence from across Europe and dating from before Caesar to about 900 AD, to shed light on important aspects of Germanic culture. It shows how semantics and loanword studies, often avoided by non-specialists, can provide important clues for historians and archaeologists of the period. Likewise, it demonstrates that philologists and linguists ignore historical evidence at their peril.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Germanic World: 1. Religion\u003cbr\u003e 2. Law\u003cbr\u003e 3. Kinship\u003cbr\u003e 4. Warfare\u003cbr\u003e 5. People and army\u003cbr\u003e 6. Lordship\u003cbr\u003e 7. Kingship\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Contact with the Non-Germanic World: 8. Contact with the Celts\u003cbr\u003e 9. The migration of the Goths\u003cbr\u003e 10. Germanic loanwords in Latin\u003cbr\u003e 11. Latin loanwords in Germanic\u003cbr\u003e 12. Trade and warfare with the Romans\u003cbr\u003e 13. Names of the days of the week\u003cbr\u003e 14. The vocabulary of writing\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contact with Christianity: 15. Problems of Christianisation\u003cbr\u003e 16. The influence of provincial Roman Christianity\u003cbr\u003e 17. The influence of Gothic\u003cbr\u003e 18. The influence of the Merovingian Franks\u003cbr\u003e 19. The influence of the Anglo-Saxons\u003cbr\u003e 20. Contrasts in Christian vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e 21. The vocabulary of ethics and fate\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of words.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20\u0026amp;%20comparative%20linguistics%20%5BCFF%5D%22\"\u003eCFF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007633117464,"sku":"9780521471343","price":84.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521471343i_cb64da27-f24d-4a8e-bee4-4e148818a675.jpg?v=1691382756","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/language-and-history-in-the-early-germanic-world-hardback-9780521471343","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}