ERC Starting Grant · 2025
EpiCentres investigates the development of written culture in medieval Scandinavia (1050–1550), a context uniquely characterized by centuries of interactions between different languages and alphabets. While the evolving relationship between Latin and the vernacular influenced the development of all western European literate societies, in Scandinavia, Latin and the Latin alphabet were introduced in the 11th century into a pre-existing 900-year-old written tradition comprising thousands of inscriptions in the local vernacular languages and in the runic alphabet. Rather than replacing this native tradition, the Latin one coexisted with it for 400 years, resulting in a written culture shaped by…
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