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Reading Medieval Latin

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ISBN-10: 052144747X

ISBN-13: 9780521447478

Edition: 1995

Authors: Keith C. Sidwell

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 418
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.11" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

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Introduction
The Foundations of Christian Latin
Education
Liturgy and divine office
The Bible
The Church fathers
The new Christian genres
Early Medieval Latin
Hiberno-Latin
Anglo-Latin
Continental Latin
The Carolingian Renaissance
The Ottonian Renaissance
From the End of the Ottonian Renaissance (1002) to the Concordat of Worms (1122)
The Norman conquests
The 'Investiture Contest'
The First Crusade
Philosophy and theology
Poetry
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
The schools and the scholastic method
The religious life
Theology and philosophy
Historical writing
Court literature
Grammar
Orthography
Note on vocabulary
Vocabulary