Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign - Hardcover

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Waquet, Françoise

 
9781859846155: Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1859846157 ISBN 13: 9781859846155
Verlag: Verso Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet's history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin's deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Françoise Waquet is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Among her books are Latin, and in French, Les fêtes royales sous la Restauration ou l'Ancien Régime retrouvé and La République des Lettres (with Hans Bots).

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1859846157
ISBN 13 
9781859846155
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Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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