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Medieval Latin
K. P. Harrington's Mediaeval Latin , the standard medieval Latin anthology used in the United States since its initial publication in 1925, has now been completely revised and updated for today's students and teachers by Joseph Pucci. This new edition of the classic anthology retains its breadth of coverage, but increases its depth by adding fourteen new selections, doubling the coverage of women writers, and expanding a quarter of the original selections. The new edition also includes a substantive grammatical introduction by Alison Goddard Elliott.
To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.
Includes thirty-two full-page plates (with accompanying captions) depicting medieval manuscript and book production.
To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.
Includes thirty-two full-page plates (with accompanying captions) depicting medieval manuscript and book production.
702 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1925
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April 11, 2014
Just a quick word; this is a good collection of Medieval Latin texts, Gregory of Torus, Paulus Disconus, Liutprand etc are are in here, and it reaches forth into the Seventeenth Century.
For the Latinist with an interest in the Middle Ages, those who know of Venerable Bede but do not wish to read the whole of the Ecclesiastical History, but still wish to have some excerpts to dip their toes in, this is a good text.
It does reflect how Latin remained the lingua franca of Europe for more than a thousand year after the alleged end (I do not agree with the date at all, Theodoric was a great Augustus, he actually 'revitalised the empire') of the Roman Empire, and it captures how it was the medium for the flow of culture across boundaries which created the European and then Western identity.
For the Latinist with an interest in the Middle Ages, those who know of Venerable Bede but do not wish to read the whole of the Ecclesiastical History, but still wish to have some excerpts to dip their toes in, this is a good text.
It does reflect how Latin remained the lingua franca of Europe for more than a thousand year after the alleged end (I do not agree with the date at all, Theodoric was a great Augustus, he actually 'revitalised the empire') of the Roman Empire, and it captures how it was the medium for the flow of culture across boundaries which created the European and then Western identity.
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February 25, 2008Short on instruction but long on great examples of medieval lit. in Latin.
April 3, 2017
Some fun stuff in here..... Gotta know your Latin.
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