Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams
Abstract
Twenty chapters from two often-dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense, but as encompassing the literary exploitation of linguistic effects and the influence of formal rhetoric on prose. Key themes explored throughout this book are the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. Chapters cover a comprehensive range of material including studies of in ... More
Twenty chapters from two often-dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense, but as encompassing the literary exploitation of linguistic effects and the influence of formal rhetoric on prose. Key themes explored throughout this book are the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. Chapters cover a comprehensive range of material including studies of individual works, groups of authors such as the Republican historians, prose genres such as the ancient novel or medieval biography, and linguistic topics such as the use of connectives in archaic Latin or prose rhythm in medieval Latin.
Keywords:
Latin studies,
classical Latin,
medieval Latin,
Latin prose,
linguistic effects,
formal rhetoric,
poetic diction,
archaism,
sentence structure,
bilingualism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780197263327 |
| Published to British Academy Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.5871/bacad/9780197263327.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Tobias Reinhardt, editor
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Michael Lapidge, editor
Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy
J. N. Adams, editor
Senior Research Fellow in Classics, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy
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