Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, cartea 18

Languages belong to the fundamentals of human existence, and many more times than we might assume people actually speak two or mor languages. Studying bi- and multilingualism in the Middle Ages and beyond sheds important light on basic sociolinguistic structures determining everyday life and culture in the premodern world. The question of linguistic competence addresses inter-cultural, intra-social, and also inter-gender issues