The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and HistoryHarvard University Press, 1958 - 465 pagine Through the centuries, Italy has received many cultures from lands around the Mediterranean and beyond the Alps, which either superseded prevailing Italian cultures or were absorbed by them. But the result is always a mixture. The linguistic evolution of Italy parallels this development, and presented as part of the cultural history it beomes a colorful and exciting tale.--dust jacket. |
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... Charlemagne's strong hands in 814 , the emperor's successors and heirs were unable to hold the empire together . Nascent feudalism was a political and economic system which , especially in the absence of a very powerful personage at the ...
... Charlemagne's strong hands in 814 , the emperor's successors and heirs were unable to hold the empire together . Nascent feudalism was a political and economic system which , especially in the absence of a very powerful personage at the ...
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... Charlemagne's efforts were rewarded by less success than they deserved , and for a short time only . Similar to what I have previously noted for preceding cen- turies , our evidence for the spoken Latin language in Charlemagne's time is ...
... Charlemagne's efforts were rewarded by less success than they deserved , and for a short time only . Similar to what I have previously noted for preceding cen- turies , our evidence for the spoken Latin language in Charlemagne's time is ...
Pagina 403
... Charlemagne had known , or had wished to take to heart , the view of at least two other good Christians of no mean learning and piety , he may well have come to the opposite conclusion on the godly virtues of the proper use of Latin ...
... Charlemagne had known , or had wished to take to heart , the view of at least two other good Christians of no mean learning and piety , he may well have come to the opposite conclusion on the godly virtues of the proper use of Latin ...
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Adriatic Altheim ancient Apennines Apulia archaeological became Bronze Age called Campania century B.C. CHAPTER Charlemagne civilization Classical Latin colonies course cremation Dante Devoto dialects of Italy east emperor especially ethnic Etruria Etruscan Europe European evidence fact foreign Gaul Germanic Greek guage Hence idioms Illyrian important Indo Indo-European dialects Indo-European languages inhabitants inhumation inscriptions invaders invasion Iron Age Iron Age cultures Italian Italic Italici Keltic Krahe Kretschmer land Langobards later Latinian Latium least Ligurian linguistic linguistic history Mediterranean Messapic migration modern Moslems native neolithic Normans northern origin Oscan Ostrogoths palaeolithic Pallottino Patroni peninsula period political pope population prehistoric Proto-Indo-European provinces race racial Raetic Randall-MacIver region Roman Empire Romanic languages Rome scholars Sicily social southern Italy speak speakers of Indo-European speech spoken substratum term terramare Terramaricoli theory tion tribes Tuscan Umbrian Venetic Villanovan culture Visigoths Vulgar Latin Whatmough 1937 written