Latin, or, The empire of the sign : from the sixteenth to the twentieth century / Françoise Waquet ; translated by John Howe
2001, First Edition. London ; New York : Verso. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446014
ISBN: 1859846157
Physical description: vi, 346 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Part I "The European Sign" 5 -- 1 "Latin Country": School 7 -- 2 "Latin Stronghold": the Church 41 -- 3 Latin Scholarship 80 -- 4 A Familiar World 100 -- Part II Standards and Ability 119 -- 5 Written Latin 124 -- 6 Oral Latin 152 -- Part III What Latin Meant 173 -- 7 Making the Man 178 -- 8 "Class" 207 -- 9 Power to Say and to Conceal 230 -- 10 Yearning for the Universal 257. Subjects: Latin language, Medieval and modern Europe. Latin philology Study and teaching Europe. Liturgical language Latin. Humanists Europe. Latin philology Study and teaching.
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