Download or read book Reading Medieval Latin written by Keith Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will find that it follows on after the end of section 5 of that course.) It is an anthology, organised chronologically and thematically in four parts. Each part is divided into chapters with introductory material, texts, and commentaries which give help with syntax, sentence-structure, and background. There are brief sections on medieval orthography and grammar, together with a vocabulary which includes words (or meanings) not found in standard classical dictionaries. The texts chosen cover areas of interest to students of medieval history, philosophy, theology, and literature.
Download or read book Reading Medieval Latin written by Keith C. Sidwell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medieval Latin written by Frank Anthony Carl Mantello and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized with the assistance of an international advisory committee of medievalists from several disciplines, Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide is a new standard guide to the Latin language and literature of the period from c. A.D. 200 to 1500. It promises to be indispensable as a handbook in university courses in Medieval Latin and as a point of departure for the study of Latin texts and documents in any of the fields of medieval studies. Comprehensive in scope, the guide provides introductions to, and bibliographic orientations in, all the main areas of Medieval Latin language, literature, and scholarship. Part One consists of an introduction and sizable listing of general print and electronic reference and research tools. Part Two focuses on issues of language, with introductions to such topics as Biblical and Christian Latin, and Medieval Latin pronunciation, orthography, morphology and syntax, word formation and lexicography, metrics, prose styles, and so on. There are chapters on the Latin used in administration, law, music, commerce, the liturgy, theology and philosophy, science and technology, and daily life. Part Three offers a systematic overview of Medieval Latin literature, with introductions to a wide range of genres and to translations from and into Latin. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of fundamental works--texts, lexica, studies, and research aids. This guide satisfies a long-standing need for a reference tool in English that focuses on medieval latinity in all its specialized aspects. It will be welcomed by students, teachers, professional latinists, medievalists, humanists, and general readers interested in the role of Latin as the learned lingua franca of western Europe. It may also prove valuable to reference librarians assembling collections concerned with Latin authors and texts of the postclassical period. ABOUT THE EDITORS F. A. C. Mantello is professor of Medieval Latin at The Catholic University of America. A. G. Rigg is professor of English and medieval studies and chairman of the Medieval Latin Committee at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. PRASIE FOR THE BOOK "This extraordinary volume, joint effort of dozens of scholars in eight countries, will be in constant use for research, for advising students and designing courses, and for answering the queries of nonmedievalist colleagues. . . . Medieval Latin provides a foundation for advances in research and teaching on a wide front. . . . Though Mantello and Rigg's Medieval Latin is a superb reference volume, I recommend that it also be read from beginning to end--in small increments, of course. The rewards will be sheaves of notes and an immensely enriched appreciation of Medieval Latin and its literature."--Janet M. Martin, Princeton University, Speculum "A remarkable achievement, and no one interested in medieval Latin can afford to be without it."--Journal of Ecclesiastical History "Everywhere there is clarity, conclusion, judicious illustration, and careful selection of what is central. This guide is a major achievement and will serve Medieval Latin studies extremely well for the foreseeable future."--The Classical Review
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature written by Ralph Hexter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.
Download or read book Medieval Latin written by K. P. Harrington and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-11-10 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.
Download or read book A Primer of medieval Latin written by Charles Henry Beeson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other Middle Ages written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries written by Sarah Kay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Kay s interests in this book are, first, to examine how medieval bestiaries depict and challenge the boundary between humans and other animals; and second, to register the effects on readers of bestiaries by the simple fact that parchment, the writing support of virtually all medieval texts, is a refined form of animal skin. Surveying the most important works created from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries, Kay connects nature to behavior to Christian doctrine or moral teaching across a range of texts. As Kay shows, medieval thought (like today) was fraught with competing theories about human exceptionalism within creation. Given that medieval bestiaries involve the inscription of texts about and images of animals onto animal hides, these texts, she argues, invite readers to reflect on the inherent fragility of bodies, both human and animal, and the difficulty of distinguishing between skin as a site of mere inscription and skin as a containing envelope for sentient life. It has been more than fifty years since the last major consideration of medieval Latin and French bestiaries was published. Kay brings us up to date in the archive, and contributes to current discussions among animal studies theorists, manuscript studies scholars, historians of the book, and medievalists of many stripes."
Download or read book Documents in Medieval Latin written by John Thorley and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse written by Frederic James Edward Raby and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions written by Peter Dronke and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Dronke explores 'The Divine Comedy' by exploring the medieval Latin traditions of Dante's era.
Download or read book Wheelock s Latin written by Frederic M. Wheelock and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 5209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic, single–volume introductory Latin textbook, introduced in 1956 and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind. Wheelock's Latin, sixth edition, revised, has all the features that have made it the best–selling single–volume beginning Latin textbook, many of them revised and expanded: o 40 chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based on ancient Roman authors o Self–tutorial exercises with an answer key for independent study o An extensive English–Latin/ Latin–English vocabulary section o A rich selection of original Latin readings –– unlike other textbooks which contain primarily made–up Latin texts o Etymological aids Also includes maps of the Mediterranean, Italy and the Aegean area, as well as numerous photographs illustrating aspects of classical culture, mythology, and historical and literary figures presented in the chapter readings. o The leading self–tutorial Latin program. Also great for college and accelerated high school courses. o Wheelock's Latin is the top–selling Latin reference in the US. o Interest and enrolments in Latin have been steadily rising in the U.S. for the past 20 years. One–half million people are currently enrolled in Latin classes, and at least 10,000 teachers, professors and graduate assistants are teaching the language in America.
Download or read book The Neo Latin Reader written by Mark Riley and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of Neo-Latin texts, Introduced, annotated, with illustrations a a note on Humanist handwriting.
Download or read book A Medieval Latin Miscellany written by Art Robson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Medieval Latin reader is aimed at intermediate undergraduate/advanced high school Latin students. The texts included in this collection cover religious biography (excerpts from Jerome's Life of Hilarion), tall-tales (Asinarius and Rapularius), heroic journey (Alexander the Great Meets Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons and Letaldus of Micy's The Fisherman Swallowed by a Whale), fables (Odo of Cheriton) and jokes (Poggio Bracciolini). Introductions to each text, as well as assistance with vocabulary, grammar, and syntax are provided.
Download or read book A Medieval Latin Reader written by C T Hadavas and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this anthology is twofold: (1) to build confidence in the student's ability to read unaltered Latin texts as soon as possible after (or even during) the first year of instruction in the language; (2) to put into the hands of Latin students a number of engaging and lively texts that reflect different aspects of the culture of Western Europe during the Middle Ages. To accomplish the above, this book provides vocabulary and commentary to a selection of texts taken from Charles H. Beeson's A Primer of Medieval Latin: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Chicago, 1925). Now nearly a century old, Beeson's anthology is still, perhaps, the single best collection of Medieval Latin texts available, at least in terms of its breadth, accessibility, and success at achieving its stated goal of "provid[ing] a collection of material that will prepare students, who have had at least four years of high-school Latin, to read ordinary medieval Latin texts with a fair degree of ease and assurance." (Beeson, 1) Beeson's Primer has aged incredibly well, with one exception: its intended audience of "students, who have had at least four years of high-school Latin," is now largely a thing of the past. Today's undergraduates, if they took Latin in high school, will most likely have studied only 1-2 years of the language before matriculation. Indeed, the majority of college Latin students will only on rare occasions pursue the language beyond two semesters. For these reasons, I have chosen from Beeson's anthology texts which I believe are both the most engaging and the most accessible. Admittedly, this is a very personal selection, but one that I have found success with in the classroom for over two decades. What is most sorely lacking for today's students in terms of Beeson's original anthology is its extremely limited assistance with vocabulary (due to the fact that the undergraduates of Beeson's day had already had at least four years of exposure to the language). On the understanding that the presumed audience for this text has only studied Latin, on average, for one year, this edition remedies that deficiency by providing significant vocabulary assistance. The notes of this anthology also explicate certain syntactical and grammatical aspects that may be challenging for beginning-intermediate students, point out some of the more striking literary/rhetorical figures and tropes that are employed, and supply basic information on historical, social, cultural, and literary issues raised by these texts. With the exception of the two poems from the Carmina Burana, which lose much of their power, charm, wit, and in the case of the second poem-the last selection in this anthology-manic energy if not performed out loud with all of the rhymes intact, the words of the texts follow Classical Latin spelling norms. Thus in the prose selections of this anthology one will find mihi, not the common Medieval Latin spelling of michi, aetas instead of etas, etc. This too is in line with Beeson's practice, for he thought it best "to avoid adding to the troubles of the beginner... by "adopt[ing] the classical orthography throughout, ..." (Beeson, 3)
Download or read book Colloquia Personarum written by Hans Henning Oerberg and published by Focus. This book was released on 2019 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as volume 3 of the author's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata.
Download or read book Lives of the Great Languages written by Karla Mallette and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Group Portrait with Language -- Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 2: My Tongue -- Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King -- Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes -- Chapter 5: Tracks -- Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs -- Part III: Translation and Time -- Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language -- Chapter 8: On First Looking into Mattā's Aristotle -- Chapter 9: "I Became a Fable" -- Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language -- Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language -- Chapter 11: Silence -- Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity -- Chapter 13: Life Writing.
