Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780700703098 / Twarda / 1996 / 264 str.

J. E. Wansborough

Opis

Covers the language of commerce and diplomacy during the period from 1500 BCE to 1500 CE. Aims at the identification of a linguistic sub-system that effected and informed the major channel of international relations.

Recenzje

'The science has been brought to a high degree of exactitude by Western European historians and palaeographers' - Mustansir Mir

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Orbits; Chapter 2 Chancery Practice; Chapter 3 Lingua Franca;

O autorze

J.E. Wansbrough