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Latin : Story of a World Language.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674726277
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: LatinDDC classification:
  • 470.9
LOC classification:
  • PA2057
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.
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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.

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. Jürgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.

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