ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Leveraging Languages: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650)
Historians have shown that the period from 1550 to 1650 was marked by a rapid expanse of the print industry, language education, and administrative bureaucracy, especially in North-West Europe. This implies that there must have been a swift increase in occupational opportunities for men and women who possessed language skills such as reading, writing, and text editing in one or more languages. However, since language professionals have never been studied as a separate category in the early modern workforce, the opportunities that existed for linguistically skilled individuals remain a big unknown. LangPro adds a fundamental missing perspective to our understanding of the early modern labour…
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