Extracurricular economy: language teachers and language schools in early modern England -- Speaking books: the early modern conversation manual -- To be 'languaged': early modern linguistic competences -- 'A conversable knowledge': language-learning and educational travel
Summary
In the early-modern period, the English language was practically unknown outside of Britain and Ireland, so the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world had to become language-learners. John Gallagher explores who learned foreign languages in this period, how they did so, and what they did with the competence they acquired
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 3, 2020)
