1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders

Wagner, Esther-Miriam; Beinhoff, Bettina

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“…International trade seems to have played a significant part in the importation of the plague from Asia into (and then within) the West, so commerce and the mobility of merchants 3 had larger socio-historical implications than the transportation of the commodities discussed in this article. Similarly, the languages of traders and their multilingual repertoires deserve special treatment and have been the object of recent scholarship (see, e.g., Wagner, Beinhoff, and Outhwaite 2017). Since the multilingual make-up of this kind of administrative text has been extensively described (on the language of the DAR, see Ingham (2009), Roig-Marín (forthcoming), and the references therein), I will not tackle this issue here.…”

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The Durham Account Rolls Vocabulary as Evidence of Trade Relations in Late Medieval England

Roig‐Marín

2021

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Words are testimonies to the kinds of historical interactions that took place between the speakers of English and many other languages spoken far beyond Britain’s continental neighbours. This article considers the process of lexical conversion from proper names (more specifically, place-names) to common names, as well as the use of descriptive adjectives or nouns denoting the geographical area from which commodities were exported present in the Durham Account Rolls (DAR). All these lexical items give important insights into the trade relations (direct or otherwise) between regions within and beyond Europe, including the Low Countries, France, the former Ottoman Empire, and the Baltic countries. The aim of this article is to offer a lexical analysis and a historical overview of the main commodities that were imported into the monastic community under the auspices of Durham Cathedral, by discussing the implications in the choice of vernacular lexical items over Medieval Latin equivalents in the multilingual environment that characterises the DAR in the broader context of late medieval England.

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The Durham Account Rolls Vocabulary as Evidence of Trade Relations in Late Medieval England

Roig‐Marín

2021

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“… 85 Wagner and Beinhoff (2017) 3–4. On code-switching: Gardner-Chloros (2009); Muysken (1995) 177–98.…”

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“…Thomas (2011);Jucker and Kopaczyk (2013) 2;Wagner and Beinhoff (2017) 3-18.85 Wagner and Beinhoff (2017) 3-4. On code-switching: Gardner-Chloros (2009);Muysken (1995) 177-98.…”

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Trade, literacy and documentary histories of the northern Black Sea

Lamont

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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The northern coast of the Black Sea has produced an abundance of documentary texts dating from the sixth through fourth centuries BC. Of great value to the epigraphist and historian are dozens of Greek letters, receipts and curses inscribed on lead and ceramic media. When placed in dialogue with one another, these texts yield new insights into daily life and literacy in communities for which literary sources are scant or absent. They document the bustling trade in saltfish, enslaved persons and textiles, and the web of relations between Greek and non-Greek individuals in north Pontic cities, from marriage to commercial ties with indigenous groups of the Pontic interior. This article demonstrates how trade could drive literacy in non-elite communities of the northern Black Sea. Literacy and mercantile activity were very much entwined, and developed in parallel with one another and with other civic and social institutions within these port communities.

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1. Merchants of Innovation: the languages of traders

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The Durham Account Rolls Vocabulary as Evidence of Trade Relations in Late Medieval England

The Durham Account Rolls Vocabulary as Evidence of Trade Relations in Late Medieval England

Trade, literacy and documentary histories of the northern Black Sea

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