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Author Green, D. H. (Dennis Howard), 1922-2008.

Title Language and history in the early Germanic world / D.H. Green
Published Cambridge, U.K ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 438 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Contents Pt. I. The Germanic World. 1. Religion. 2. Law. 3. Kinship. 4. Warfare. 5. People and army. 6. Lordship. 7. Kingship -- pt. II. Contact with the Non-Germanic World. 8. Contact with the Celts. 9. The migration of the Goths. 10. Germanic loanwords in Latin. 11. Latin loanwords in Germanic. 12. Trade and warfare with the Romans. 13. Names of days of the week. 14. The vocabulary of writing -- pt. III. Contact with Christianity. 15. Problems of Christianisation. 16. The influence of provincial Roman Christianity. 17. The influence of Gothic. 18. The influence of the Merovingian Franks. 19. The influence of the Anglo-Saxons. 20. Contrasts in Christian vocabulary. 21. The vocabulary of ethics and fate
Notes Erratum slip laid in
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-418) and index
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Subject Germanic languages -- History.
Languages in contact -- Europe -- History
Germanic peoples -- History
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
Germanic languages
Germanic peoples
Languages in contact
Germanen
Germanische Sprachen
Geschichte
Kulturkontakt
Sprachkontakt
Germanen.
Germaanse talen.
Langues indo-européennes -- Histoire.
Langues en contact -- Europe -- Histoire.
Langues germaniques -- Histoire.
Germains -- Histoire.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 392-814. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045689
Subject Europe
Europe -- 392-814.
Altgermanische Sprachen.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511007760
9780511007767