Tore Janson (, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University of Goteborg)
A Natural History of Latin
Tore Janson (, Emeritus Professor of Latin, University of Goteborg)
A Natural History of Latin
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Tells the history of Latin from its origins. This book offers persuasive arguments for its value and gives access to its fascinating worlds. It describes how Latin spread through the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival in modern times. It also shows how spoken and written Latin evolved in different places.
Tells the history of Latin from its origins. This book offers persuasive arguments for its value and gives access to its fascinating worlds. It describes how Latin spread through the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival in modern times. It also shows how spoken and written Latin evolved in different places.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 398g
- ISBN-13: 9780199214051
- ISBN-10: 0199214050
- Artikelnr.: 22257351
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 398g
- ISBN-13: 9780199214051
- ISBN-10: 0199214050
- Artikelnr.: 22257351
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Tore Janson was Professor successively of Latin and African Languages at the University of Göteborg and is a world expert on the history of Languages. His books include A Short History of Languages (OUP 2002; hardback edition 2007).
Part I Latin and the Romans
1: Lingua latina: a first acquaintance
2: The earliest period of Rome
3: How Latin became Latin
4: From small town to great power
5: How bad were the Romans?
6: A voice from early Rome
7: The meeting with Greece
8: Theatre for the people
9: The age of revolutions
10: Writing, reading, listening, and speaking
11: Speeches, politics, and lawsuits
12: Cicero and rhetoric
13: The language of history
14: Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman Empire
15: Name and family
16: Years and months
17: Latin becomes the language of Europe
18: Poets and poetry
19: Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
20: The Schools and Quintilian
21: The sciences
22: Everyday language
23: Laws and legal language
24: Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain
25: Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion
Part II Latin and Europe
26: Europe after Rome
27: From Latin to the Romance languages
28: Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages
29: Latin in Britain
30: Latin in schools
31: Speaking and spelling
32: Books and scribes
33: Saints and heretics
34: The guardians of the heritage
35: Poetry after antiquity
36: Abelard and Heloise
37: The thinkers
38: The Renaissance
39: Doctors and their language
40: Linnaeus and Latin
41: Physicists, chemists, and others
42: Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter
43: Loanwords and neologisms
44: Latin and German
45: Latin and French
46: Latin and English
47: Latin and us
Part III About the Grammar
48: Introduction
49: Pronunciation and stress
50: Sentences, verbs and nouns
51: Words and word classes
52: Nouns
53: Adjectives
54: Pronouns
55: THe forms of the verb
56: Amandi and amanda
57: How words are formed
Glossary of words and expressions
Part IV Basic Vocabulary
Part V Common Phrases and Expressions
Suggested reading
Index
1: Lingua latina: a first acquaintance
2: The earliest period of Rome
3: How Latin became Latin
4: From small town to great power
5: How bad were the Romans?
6: A voice from early Rome
7: The meeting with Greece
8: Theatre for the people
9: The age of revolutions
10: Writing, reading, listening, and speaking
11: Speeches, politics, and lawsuits
12: Cicero and rhetoric
13: The language of history
14: Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman Empire
15: Name and family
16: Years and months
17: Latin becomes the language of Europe
18: Poets and poetry
19: Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
20: The Schools and Quintilian
21: The sciences
22: Everyday language
23: Laws and legal language
24: Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain
25: Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion
Part II Latin and Europe
26: Europe after Rome
27: From Latin to the Romance languages
28: Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages
29: Latin in Britain
30: Latin in schools
31: Speaking and spelling
32: Books and scribes
33: Saints and heretics
34: The guardians of the heritage
35: Poetry after antiquity
36: Abelard and Heloise
37: The thinkers
38: The Renaissance
39: Doctors and their language
40: Linnaeus and Latin
41: Physicists, chemists, and others
42: Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter
43: Loanwords and neologisms
44: Latin and German
45: Latin and French
46: Latin and English
47: Latin and us
Part III About the Grammar
48: Introduction
49: Pronunciation and stress
50: Sentences, verbs and nouns
51: Words and word classes
52: Nouns
53: Adjectives
54: Pronouns
55: THe forms of the verb
56: Amandi and amanda
57: How words are formed
Glossary of words and expressions
Part IV Basic Vocabulary
Part V Common Phrases and Expressions
Suggested reading
Index
Part I Latin and the Romans
1: Lingua latina: a first acquaintance
2: The earliest period of Rome
3: How Latin became Latin
4: From small town to great power
5: How bad were the Romans?
6: A voice from early Rome
7: The meeting with Greece
8: Theatre for the people
9: The age of revolutions
10: Writing, reading, listening, and speaking
11: Speeches, politics, and lawsuits
12: Cicero and rhetoric
13: The language of history
14: Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman Empire
15: Name and family
16: Years and months
17: Latin becomes the language of Europe
18: Poets and poetry
19: Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
20: The Schools and Quintilian
21: The sciences
22: Everyday language
23: Laws and legal language
24: Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain
25: Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion
Part II Latin and Europe
26: Europe after Rome
27: From Latin to the Romance languages
28: Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages
29: Latin in Britain
30: Latin in schools
31: Speaking and spelling
32: Books and scribes
33: Saints and heretics
34: The guardians of the heritage
35: Poetry after antiquity
36: Abelard and Heloise
37: The thinkers
38: The Renaissance
39: Doctors and their language
40: Linnaeus and Latin
41: Physicists, chemists, and others
42: Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter
43: Loanwords and neologisms
44: Latin and German
45: Latin and French
46: Latin and English
47: Latin and us
Part III About the Grammar
48: Introduction
49: Pronunciation and stress
50: Sentences, verbs and nouns
51: Words and word classes
52: Nouns
53: Adjectives
54: Pronouns
55: THe forms of the verb
56: Amandi and amanda
57: How words are formed
Glossary of words and expressions
Part IV Basic Vocabulary
Part V Common Phrases and Expressions
Suggested reading
Index
1: Lingua latina: a first acquaintance
2: The earliest period of Rome
3: How Latin became Latin
4: From small town to great power
5: How bad were the Romans?
6: A voice from early Rome
7: The meeting with Greece
8: Theatre for the people
9: The age of revolutions
10: Writing, reading, listening, and speaking
11: Speeches, politics, and lawsuits
12: Cicero and rhetoric
13: The language of history
14: Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman Empire
15: Name and family
16: Years and months
17: Latin becomes the language of Europe
18: Poets and poetry
19: Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
20: The Schools and Quintilian
21: The sciences
22: Everyday language
23: Laws and legal language
24: Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain
25: Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion
Part II Latin and Europe
26: Europe after Rome
27: From Latin to the Romance languages
28: Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages
29: Latin in Britain
30: Latin in schools
31: Speaking and spelling
32: Books and scribes
33: Saints and heretics
34: The guardians of the heritage
35: Poetry after antiquity
36: Abelard and Heloise
37: The thinkers
38: The Renaissance
39: Doctors and their language
40: Linnaeus and Latin
41: Physicists, chemists, and others
42: Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry Potter
43: Loanwords and neologisms
44: Latin and German
45: Latin and French
46: Latin and English
47: Latin and us
Part III About the Grammar
48: Introduction
49: Pronunciation and stress
50: Sentences, verbs and nouns
51: Words and word classes
52: Nouns
53: Adjectives
54: Pronouns
55: THe forms of the verb
56: Amandi and amanda
57: How words are formed
Glossary of words and expressions
Part IV Basic Vocabulary
Part V Common Phrases and Expressions
Suggested reading
Index
