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Die Gestalt des indischen Priesterkonigs Johannes hat seit der ersten Erwahnung durch Otto von Freising westliche Leser fasziniert. Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion uber die wichtigste Informationsquelle, die um 1150 entstandene -Epistola presbiteri Johannis-, basiert aber immer noch auf dem Material, das im 19. Jahrhundert von Friedrich Zarncke publiziert wurde. Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet im ersten Teil eine Revision von Zarnckes Aussagen zur Uberlieferungs- und Textgeschichte der lateinischen -Epistola- sowie Arbeitseditionen von neun Fassungen des Textes. Den Wechselbeziehungen zur...

The papers collected in this volume discuss descriptive methods and present conclusions relevant for the history of the book production and reception. Books printed in Europe in the 15th and 16th century still had much in common with manuscripts. They are not mere textual sources, but also material objects whose physical make-up and individual features need to be taken into account in library projects for cataloguing and digitization.

Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in correspondence and other commercial texts show significant differences from the language used in official, legal or private writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting precedents, promote language change.

This interdisciplinary volume aims to place the...

The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the...