The series Languages and Culture in History studies the role foreign languages have played in the creation of linguistic and cultural heritage, at the individual, communal, national and transnational level.

At the heart of this series is the historical evolution of linguistic and cultural policies, internal as well as external, and their relationship with linguistic and cultural identities.

The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to a variety of historical issues: the diffusion, the supply and the demand for foreign languages, the history of pedagogical practices, the historical relationship between languages in a given cultural context, the public and private use of foreign languages – in short, every way foreign languages intersect with local languages in the cultural realm.

Forthcoming titles

• Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory. Melodramas of the Foreign Tongue, Tingting Hui

• Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching. Hidden Pioneers of Practice from Europe and Beyond (1400-2000), Sabine Doff, Giovanni Iamartino and Rachel Mairs (eds)

• Languages of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World, Gleb Kazakov and Vladislav Rjeoutski (eds)

• Rethinking the Mother Tongue in Contemporary Italy. On Gramsci, Postcolonial Literature, and Immanent Grammar, Saskia Kroonenberg

• Grounded Histories of Language Teaching. 16th–20th Centuries, Richard Smith and Sabine Doff (eds)

• French in the Holy Land: Language, Diplomacy, Identity and French Education in Palestine (1908-1948), Karène Sanchez-Summerer

• The German Philological and Linguistic Tradition in a Transnational Perspective, Jean-Michel Fortis and Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn

• Race, Language, and Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Hispanoamericanismo (1897–c. 1940), Rady Roldán-Figueroa

• Translating the New Testament in Reformation Germany. Reception, Methods, Luther’s Latin and Greek Tragedy, Cressida Ryan

• The French Language and the Making of Modern Chinese Intellectuals. New Selves, New Worlds, Vivienne Xiangwei Guo

• Norwegian Nationalism and the Concept of Two Cultures. Language, Division, and Nation Building during the Nineteenth Century, Jens Johan Hyvik

• Translation and Polyglossia in Early Modern English Literature. The Rhetoric of Teacherly Texts, Laetitia Sansonetti