Orthographies in Early Modern Europe Ed. by Baddeley, Susan /
Voeste, Anja Aims and Scope This volume provides, for the first
time, a pan-European view of the development of written
languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th
century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that
affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the
emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena,
and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European
languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the
mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations
throughout the period.