{"product_id":"languages-and-communities-in-the-late-and-post-roman-western-provinces-9780198888956","title":"Languages and Communities in the Late and Post-Roman Western Provinces","description":"This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLanguages are central to the creation and expression of identities and cultures, as well as to life itself, yet the linguistic variegation of the later-Roman and post-imperial period in the Roman west is remarkably understudied. A deeper understanding of this important issue is crucial to any reconstruction of the broader story of linguistic continuity and change in Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as to the history of the communities who wrote, read, and spoke Latin and other languages. \u003cem\u003eLanguages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comprehensive modern study of the main developments, key features and debates of the later-Roman and post-imperial linguistic environment, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Gaul, the Germanies, Britain and Ireland. The chapters collected in this volume help us to understand better the embeddedness, or not, of Latin, at different social levels and across provinces, to consider (socio)linguistic variegation, bi-\/multi-lingualism, and attitudes towards languages, and to confront the complex role of language in the communities, identities, and cultures of the later- and post-imperial Roman western world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume will be accompanied by two further volumes from the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project: \u003cem\u003eSocial Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLatinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlex Mullen, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics, University of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e, George Woudhuysen, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor in Roman History, University of Nottingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls College). She is the author of \u003cem\u003eSouthern Gaul and the Mediterranean\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2019), co-author (with Olivia Elder) of \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2019), and co-editor (with Patrick James) of \u003cem\u003eMultilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge, 2012). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e George Woudhuysen is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, including \u003cem\u003eThe Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh, 2023) (with Justin Stover).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50399039226130,"sku":"9780198888956","price":172.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b2ac5508-4095-4dc7-b044-33fb82d8c9a8.jpg?v=1729087354","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/languages-and-communities-in-the-late-and-post-roman-western-provinces-9780198888956","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}