Langues et impérialité seconde dans les îles Britanniques à la fin du Moyen Âge

Mairey, Aude (2023) Langues et impérialité seconde dans les îles Britanniques à la fin du Moyen Âge. In: Il re e le sue lingue. Comunicazione e imperialità = Le roi et ses langues. Communication et impérialité. Imperialiter (2). BUP - Basilicata University Press, Potenza, pp. 123-146. ISBN 978-88-31309-20-2

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Abstract

Within the Plantagenet Empire, the «empire without a name» to use Jean-Philippe Genet’s beautiful phrase, linguistic uses as markers of second imperiality as formulated in the argument of the Imperialiter programme («the decisive influence exerted by imperial formalisation on non-imperial political constructions»), are particularly complex in view of the widespread multilingualism of the British Isles. Anglophone historiography is currently undergoing a profound renewal on these issues. This paper will therefore address some elements of this complexity in the island spaces – conquered by or at war with the English – in particular in relation to the interactions between referential, vehicular and vernacular languages, mainly Gaelic, in the last centuries of the Middle Ages. It will also be an opportunity to reflect on the degree of «imperial formalisation» defining second imperiality, a difficult task.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	British Isles, Languages, Multilingualism, Imperiality
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2024 10:56
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2024 10:56
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/4628

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