Research Catalog

Title

Language and history in the early Germanic world / D.H. Green.

Author

Green, D. H. (Dennis Howard), 1922-2008.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xiii, 438 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm

Subjects

• Europe
• Languages in contact
• 392-814
• History
• Altgermanische Sprachen
• Europe > 392-814
• Europe, Western > History > 392-814
• Europe > History > 392-814
• Germains > Histoire
• Langues germaniques > Histoire
• Langues en contact > Europe > Histoire
• Langues indo-européennes > Histoire
• Languages in contact > Europe > History
• Germanic languages > History
• Talen
• Germanen
• Sprachkontakt
• Kulturkontakt
• Geschichte
• Germanische Sprachen
• Germanic peoples > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Erratum slip laid in.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. I. The Germanic World. 1. Religion. 2. Law. 3. Kinship. 4. Warfare. 5. People and army. 6. Lordship. 7. Kingship -- pt. II. Contact with the Non-Germanic World. 8. Contact with the Celts. 9. The migration of the Goths. 10. Germanic loanwords in Latin. 11. Latin loanwords in Germanic. 12. Trade and warfare with the Romans. 13. Names of days of the week. 14. The vocabulary of writing -- pt. III. Contact with Christianity. 15. Problems of Christianisation. 16. The influence of provincial Roman Christianity. 17. The influence of Gothic. 18. The influence of the Merovingian Franks. 19. The influence of the Anglo-Saxons. 20. Contrasts in Christian vocabulary. 21. The vocabulary of ethics and fate.

ISBN

• 0521471346
• 9780521471343
• 9780521794237
• 0521794234

LCCN

97030144

OCLC

• ocm37353895
• 37353895
• SCSB-470311

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library