Charlie Kerrigan: Living Latin | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781350377035 | Living Latin | Everyday Language and Popular Culture | Kerrigan | Buch

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Beschreibung

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world, arguing that this material is just as worthy of readers' attention as the famous classics. Those classics are reassessed in the light of popular concerns, as works of art that evoke ancient, sustainable, and communal ways of living, encompassing broad and diverse traditions of readers through time.

And of course Latin lived on: this account revisits what happened to the language after the Roman empire, tracing its twin streams - intellectual lingua franca and a series of Romance languages - into the twenty-first century. What emerges is a human chain stretching back thousands of years and still in existence today, a story of workers and weavers, violets and roses, storytellers and musicians, a common and democratic archive of world history.

Kerrigan's strong and attractive case for a new conception of Latin sends out a call to arms to reevaluate the place of Latin in history. On the one hand, an interesting and readable history of the language, on the other, this book sets out to provoke questions for readers, students, and teachers of Latin, as well as anyone interested in the ancient Mediterranean world. Latin was and should always be for all.

Über den Autor

Charlie Kerrigan is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is author of Virgil's Map (Bloomsbury, 2020) and blogs at Confabulations, part of the Living Latin Project at TCD.

Zusammenfassung

A timely argument for the place of art and literature in democratic society

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 The Latin of Ordinary People
2 The Classics
3 Latin to Romance
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Produktart:	Schulbücher
Rubrik:	Schule & Lernen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781350377035
ISBN-10:	1350377031
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kerrigan, Charlie
Redaktion:	Harrison, Thomas
Hersteller:	Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Maße:	213 x 134 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Charlie Kerrigan
Erscheinungsdatum:	08.02.2024
Gewicht:	0,182 kg