Culture During The Early Modern Period
Before the early modern period most of the literature of the Swiss Confederation was either in Latin or German as until 1798 ponfederation was overwhelmingly German with only small pockets of French. During the early modern period German still dominated though French, Italian and Romansh began to develop literary traditions within the boundaries of modern Switzerland.
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