Together with John Butcher and Marta Penchini and in cooperation with the Academy of German-Italian Studies in Meran/Merano, Josef Prackwieser, researcher at the Center for Autonomy Experience, has published an anthology on historical multilingualism in South Tyrol: South Tyrol and the historical Tyrol have always been a multilingual Alpine region. Situated at the overlap of two large cultural and economic areas, Italian was not unfamiliar in Meran/Merano/Maran, Bozen/Bolzano/Bulsan and the lowlands even before the annexation of South Tyrol by Italy. And in Trento, Rovereto and Trentino, too, German was sometimes used as a lingua franca from the Middle Ages onwards. The anthology is dedicated to the topic from a historical, linguistic and literary perspective in contributions in German, Italian and English.
New: Anthology on historical multilingualism in South Tyrol
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