Contents -- Preface -- Author information -- Chapter 1. Romance-Germanic encounters along the language border: past, present and future -- Part I: Theoretical and historical overview -- Chapter 2. The dimensions of language conflict: an exploration -- Chapter 3. Trilingual tug-o'-war: language border fluctuations in the Low Countries -- Chapter 4. Standard language ideology and the history of Romance-Germanic encounters -- Part II: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 5. Constructing identity: language and identity in the narration of the Franco-Flemish conflict (1297-1305) -- Chapter 6. Multilingualism and the challenge of frenchification in the early modern Dutch Republic -- Part III: The 18th and 19th centuries -- Chapter 7. Frenchification in discourse and practice: loan morphology in Dutch private letters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Chapter 8. The use of languages in Maastricht in the nineteenth century: the press and family archives -- Part IV: The 20th and 21st centuries -- Chapter 9. Language conflict in the educational realm: Eupen-Malmedy in the interbellum period (1920-1940) -- Chapter 10. Multilingual education and the politics of language in Luxembourg -- Chapter 11. In contact and/or in conflict? Ethno-cultural markers, language and schooling in post-war Brussels -- Epilogue -- Chapter 12. Conceptualising "language borders", "language contact" and "language conflict" -- Index.