Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
Contributor(s)
Kallio, Kati (editor)
Lahtinen, Anu (editor)
Lehtonen, Tuomas M.S. (editor)
Leskelä, Ilkka (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural settings with wider political and confessional contexts. Using rarely examined materials, such as prints, court protocols, letters and manuscripts in Latin and a range of vernacular languages, including Estonian, Finnish, German, Ingrian, Karelian, Latvian, Lenape, Sami languages and Swedish, the thirteen authors chart the social and literary developments of the area. Wide networks of learned men and officials but also the number of native speakers in the clergy defined the ways the poetic resources of transnational and local literary and oral cultures benefited the nascent literatures. Contributors include: Eeva-Liisa Bastman, Kati Kallio, Suvi-Päivi Koski, Ulla Koskinen, Miia Kuha, Anu Lahtinen, Tuija Laine, Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Ilkka Leskelä, Aivar Põldvee, Sanna Raninen, Kristiina Ross, Taarna Valtonen, and Kristi Viiding.
Keywords
Literary studies: general; Baltic Sea; 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599; 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699; Language: history and general works; Poetry; European historyDOI
10.1163/9789004429772ISBN
9789004429772, 9789004429765, 9789004429772Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://brill.com/Publication date and place
2024Series
Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, 133Classification
Literary studies: general
Baltic Sea
16th century, c 1500 to c 1599
17th century, c 1600 to c 1699
Language: history and general works
Poetry
European history