Overview

Estonian and Latvian are members of different language families. Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language, while Latvian belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages. The cultural and socio-political developments of Estonia and Latvia, however, have been remarkably similar since the Christianisation of the two peoples in the 13th century. The Estonian and Latvian cultures were both moulded to form part of Christian Europe by German-speaking mediators who worked hard from the 16th to 18th centuries in order to create the Estonian and Latvian literary languages by translating ecclesiastical texts. The authors assume that similarities in the cultural history must have left some similar traces in the structures of the two languages as well. This book represents a collection of papers on certain common developments in the Estonian and Latvian cultural history, which are obviously related to the formation of the two literary languages.

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Author:   Kristiina Ross ,  Peteris Vanags ,  P&#x0113 Teris Vanags
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9783631563441

ISBN 10:   3631563442
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   05 November 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Kristiina Ross/Peteris Vanags: Common roots of the Latvian and Estonian literary languages - Preface - Toomas Paul: Map of Livonia: Beschryvinghe van Lyflandt, ca 1630. Cultural context of the formation of written (literary) Estonian - Janis Kreslins: Early modern textuality: A Baltic perspective - Aivar Poldvee: Peasant schools in Estland and Livland during the last quarter of the 17th century - Mara Grudule: Latvian poetry in Livland and Courland in the 17th century and beginning of the 18th - Kristi Viiding: The literary background of early Estonian secular writing: the current situation and future perspectives in research - Liina Lukas: Baltic-German literature and Estonian literary studies - Peteris Vanags: Latvian texts in the 16th and 17th centuries: beginnings and development - Heli Laanekask/ Kristiina Ross: The language of Tartu and Tallinn in 17th-century Livonia - Lidija Leikuma: The beginnings of written Latgalian - Kristiina Ross: Estonian Bible translations - Everita Andronova: Research on the earliest (16th-17th c.) Latvian texts: the past twenty years (1985-2005) - Kulli Habicht: Estonian studies of old literary Estonian.

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The Editors: Kristiina Ross, born 1955, is researcher at the Institute of the Estonian Language in Tallinn. Her main field of research is the early history of literary Estonian, especially the history of Estonian Bible translations. Peteris Vanags, born 1962, is professor of the Baltic languages at the University of Latvia in Riga and at Stockholm University. His main fields of research are connected with the history of the Baltic languages, especially the early written period (16th-18th century) of Latvian.

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