Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces

Alex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls College). She is the author of Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2019), co-author (with Olivia Elder) of The Language of Letters (Cambridge, 2019), and co-editor (with Patrick James) of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012).George Woudhuysen is an Assistant Professor in Roman History at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on Late Antiquity, including The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (Edinburgh, 2023) (with Justin Stover).

• 1: Alex Mullen And George Woudhuysen: Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial WestNorth Africa and the Iberian Peninsula2: Jonathan P. Conant: Languages and Communities in Late Antique and Early Medieval North Africa3: Isabel Velázquez: Reflections on the Latin Language Spoken and Written in Visigothic Hispania4: Graham Barrett: Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval IberiaGaul and the Germanies5: Alderik Blom: Gaulish in the Late Empire (c. 200 600 CE)6: Ian Wood: Registers of Latin in Gaul from the Fifth to the Seventh Century7: Wolfgang Haubrichs: Death and Survival of Latin in the Empire West of the Rhine (Belgicae, Germaniae) and the Rise of the Frankish-Theodisc LanguagesIreland and Britain8: David Stifter and Nora White, with a contribution By Katherine Forsyth: Early Literacy and Multilingualism in Ireland and Britain9: David Parsons: The Romance of Early Britain: Latin, British and English, c. 400 60010: Paul Russell: A Critical Afterword

It provides a first point of departure for understanding the linguistic situation of the Roman West in Late Antiquity and the post-imperial period, particularly with regard to the fate of Latin. We can therefore only rejoice at the publication of such an ambitious and at the same time illuminating volume, which will certainly serve as an impetus for further re-search.