Latin
Story of a World Language
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
352 pages
978-0-674-72627-7 (ISBN)
Description
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 halftones, 3 maps
20 halftones, 3 maps
ISBN-13
978-0-674-72627-7 (9780674726277)
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11/2013
The Belknap Press
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Persons
LeonhardtJuergen: Juergen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tuebingen.
LeonhardtJuergen: Juergen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tuebingen.
LeonhardtJuergen: Juergen Leonhardt is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Tuebingen.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the German Edition
- Preface to the English Edition
- 1. Latin as a World Language
- 2. The Language of the Empire
- 3. Europe's Latin Millennium
- 4. World Language without a World
- 5. Latin Today
- Notes
- References
- Index
