title: Bilingualism against Diglossia in the French Royal Chancery in the Late Middle Ages
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metadata.value: Nosova, Ekaterina I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-10-25T17:21:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-10-25T17:21:28Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Nosova E. I. Bilingualism against Diglossia in the French Royal Chancery in the Late Middle Ages. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 3, рp. 1031–1044.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16434
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to the analysis of the use of Latin and vernacular languages in the French
  royal chancery during the Late Middle Ages. The language played an important role in constructing
  and strengthening the State. The idea of the unification of language went hand in
  hand with the idea of political unification. In France, the most important stage in the transition
  from Latin to the vernacular language was the 14th century. The first examples of the use
  of the vernacular language in the work of the chancery emerged on the periphery. The transition
  from Latin to French was not instantaneous, but took place in several phases. It should be
  noted that the ratio of languages was uneven in various areas of office work, and also depended
  on the region to which the charter was related. In this regard, many researchers propose to
  speak not about bilingualism, but about diglossia. Conceding with the validity of this remark,
  it is possible to complete this picture with several documents. In the collection of Nikolai
  Petrovich Likhachev (1862–1936) there is the charter of King John II (1352), the protocol and
  eschatocol of which are written in Latin, and the main part — in French. An analysis of this
  document shows how closely Latin and French coexisted in the documents of the royal chancery
  of France in the 14th century. It dissolves the boundaries between the niches occupied by
  one or the other language. Therefore, it seems not always correct to talk about diglossia.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for the young PhDs
  no. МК-5297.2018.6 “Letters and acts of French Kings in the Scientific Archives of St. Petersburg Institute of
  History (14th–15th)”. I express my deep gratitude to Sofia Igorevna Lobataya (Goethe University, Frankfurt
  am Main) for the translation in English and to Serge Lusignan (University of Montréal) for useful remarks.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bilingualism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diglossia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chancery
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: French
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. P. Likhachev
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Bilingualism against Diglossia in the French Royal Chancery in the Late Middle Ages
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metadata.value: Article
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