Keith Sidwell (University College Cork)

Reading Medieval Latin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reading Medieval Latin is an anthology of medieval Latin texts, arranged chronologically and thematically with introductions, commentaries, and a vocabulary of non-classical words and meanings. It is a language textbook, designed to introduce students with one year or more of Latin to the Latin writing and culture of the period AD 550-1200.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780521447478
• ISBN-10: 052144747X
• Artikelnr.: 22420192

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Foundations of Christian Latin: 1. Education
2. Liturgy and divine office
3. The Bible
4. The Church fathers
5. The new Christian genres
Part II. Early Medieval Latin: 6. Hiberno-Latin
7. Anglo-Latin
8. Continental Latin
9. The Carolingian Renaissance
10. The Ottonian Renaissance
Part III. From the End of the Ottonian Renaissance (1002) to the Concordat of Worms (1122): 11. The Norman conquests
12. The 'Investiture Contest'
13. The First Crusade
14. Philosophy and theology
15. Poetry
Part IV. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance: 16. The schools and the scholastic method
17. The religious life
18. Theology and philosophy
19. Historical writing
20. Court literature
Grammar
Orthography
Note on vocabulary
Vocabulary.