Norwich, an English Quadrilingual City in the Early Modern Period

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Joby, Christopher (2025) Norwich, an English Quadrilingual City in the Early Modern Period. In: Polyglot Texts and Translations in Early Modern Europe. Approaches to Translation Studies . Brill, pp. 25-56. ISBN 978-90-04-69555-9

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Abstract

In the middle of the sixteenth century, religious persecution and economic hardship drove thousands of people to leave the southern Netherlands for the relative safety of England. Several thousand of them settled in Norwich, the second largest city in the kingdom after London. Most of those seeking refuge spoke varieties of Dutch, primarily Flemish, as a first language. The rest spoke varieties of French, above all Picard, as their first language. They joined thousands of inhabitants of Norwich who, of course, spoke varieties of English. As a result, there were three vernacular communities in early modern Norwich for at least one hundred years. Furthermore, well-educated members of each language community could read and write Latin. Therefore, early modern Norwich can be called a quadrilingual city.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
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Date Deposited:	23 Apr 2025 16:30
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2025 08:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99063
DOI:	10.1163/9789004695566_003

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