A Lesson in Early Modern Linguistic Theory with Johann Merken, and Its Implications for the Study of Material Texts - a podcast by Alexander Lawrence Ames

The history of material texts naturally intersects with the history of language—and linguistic theory.  Drawing on fascinating artifacts held at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, this episode of Cloister Talk offers useful transatlantic intellectual-historical context for the place of German language (spoken, written, and printed) in the early-modern European world.

Further episodes of Cloister Talk: The Pennsylvania German Material Texts Podcast

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