Description
This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups—ranging from the nobility to the peasantry—to develop, express, and mark their identities.
Chapter
Dutch foreign language use and education after 1750
Willem Frijhoff (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Practice and functions of French as a second language in a Dutch patrician family
The van Hogendorp family (eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries)
Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau (University of Leiden)
(Translated by Mary Robitaille-Ibbett)
Multilingualism versus proficiency in the German language among the administrative elites of the Kingdom of Hungary in the eighteenth century
Olga Khavanova (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Voices in a country divided
Linguistic choices in early modern Croatia
Ivana Horbec and Maja Matasović (Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb)
Introducing the teaching of foreign languages in grammar schools
A comparison between the Holy Roman Empire and the Governorate of Estonia (Estonia)
Latin in the education of nobility in Russia: The history of a defeat
Vladislav Rjéoutski (Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau)
Latin as the language of the orthodox clergy in eighteenth-century Russia
Ekaterina Kislova (Moscow State University)
Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe
：Education, Sociability, and Governance
( Languages and Culture in History )
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