Medieval Latin
by Karl Pomeroy Harrington (Editor)
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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"I am sure that those of us who teach medieval Latin will find ways to take advantage of its many strengths and to compensate for its limitations. However, because of its multiple and multiplex lapses, I must recommend that this volume not be put into the hands of beginners in medieval Latin for unsupervised study."
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"This new edition features a substantively revised selection of texts and a much more coherent chronological frame…"
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"The introductory material, the diversity and quality of the selections, and Elliott's grammatical supplement make this book an excellent choice for a graduate survey."
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- Alternate titles
- Medieval Latin
- Original publication date
- 1925
- Important events
- Coronation of King Arthur
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- Languages
- English, Latin
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 16
