Latin Or the Empire of the Sign

by Waquet, Francoise; Howe, John

• ISBN13: 9781859844021
• ISBN10: 1859844022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world.

Author Biography

Francoise Waquet is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Part I ``The European Sign''	5	(114)
``Latin Country'': School	7	(34)
The ``Latin Stronghold'': the Church	41	(39)
Latin Scholarship	80	(20)
A Familiar World	100	(19)
Part II Standards and Ability	119	(54)
Introduction	121	(3)
Written Latin	124	(28)
Oral Latin	152	(21)
Part III What Latin Meant	173	(98)
Introduction	175	(3)
Making the Man	178	(29)
``Class''	207	(23)
The Power to Say and to Conceal	230	(27)
Yearning for the Universal	257	(14)
Conclusion	271	(4)
Select Bibliography	275	(5)
Notes	280	(60)
Index	340