The Frisian exception. Why are there hardly any traces of written Frisian from the eighth and ninth centuries?

IF 0.3 2区 历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
M. Mostert
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ABSTRACT The Frisians did not develop anything like the written works produced by their neighbours in the ninth century. They knew forms of pragmatic literacy, as is clear from surviving coins and runic inscriptions. Narrative sources written by Anglo-Saxons and Franks show that their kings were able to deal with correspondence in a manner appropriate to their position, although for anything resembling poetry and traditions about the past they resorted to orality. The best Frisian poetry survives in legal texts. But the inhabitants of the area called Frisia never developed into a unified ‘people’, neither politically nor indeed linguistically. They lacked a need to develop a written literature of their own.
弗里斯兰例外。为什么几乎找不到八、九世纪以来弗里斯兰文字的痕迹?
弗里斯兰人在9世纪并没有像他们的邻居那样创造出任何书面作品。从现存的硬币和符文铭文中可以清楚地看出,他们知道实用主义文化的形式。盎格鲁-撒克逊人和法兰克人写的叙述资料表明,他们的国王能够以一种适合他们地位的方式处理信件,尽管对于任何类似诗歌和过去的传统,他们都诉诸口头。最好的弗里斯兰诗歌保存在法律文本中。但弗里斯兰地区的居民从未发展成一个统一的“民族”,无论是在政治上还是在语言上。他们缺乏发展自己的书面文学的需要。
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JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-
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0.60
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Medieval History aims at meeting the need for a major international publication devoted to all aspects of the history of Europe in the Middle Ages. Each issue comprises around four or five articles on European history, including Britain and Ireland, between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. The Journal also includes review articles, historiographical essays and state of research studies.
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