The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times

• Main Author: Lledó-Guillem, Vicente (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Historical linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Romance languages.; Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Historical Linguistics.; Romance Languages.; Medieval Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh ins...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Part I: The political use of the Occitan language by the Catalan-Aragonese monarchy; Chapter 2: The Rise of Catalan as a Royal Language: Bernat Desclot's account of the Battle of Castellammare in response to Bernat d'Auriac's sirventés; Chapter 3: The politics of the linguistic discontinuity of Occitan versus the continuity of Catalan: the Sermó by Ramon Muntaner
• Chapter 4: Catalan and Occitan versus Aragonese: the poetic ceremony following the Coronation of Alfonso the Benign in Muntaner's Crònica
• Part II: The interpretation of the Catalan-Occitan relationship in the construction of the Spanish Empire
• Chapter 5: The historical (dis)continuity of the Catalan language and the linguistic creation of the Spanish Empire: Ausiàs March in the Early Modern Period
• Chapter 6: A unitary Catalan-Occitan language in the Early Modern Period: the exaltation of Apitxat Valencian
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.