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Latin - or, the Empire of a Sign (Paperback)
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Latin - or, the Empire of a Sign (Paperback)
Series: Verso World History Series
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Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western
culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise
Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's
uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its
practitioners inscribed. Granted a new lease of life by the
Humanists and the Catholic Church, Latin was the form in which
generations of schoolchildren were taught to read, millions of
people worshipped, and an international community of scholars
communicated with one another. It conveyed sacredness, but also
obscenity; learning, as well as pedantry; science, but also
trickery and mumbo-jumbo. Few individuals even among the clergy or
the most learned scholars have ever managed to speak it with any
degree of correctness or fluency, let alone elegance. Why, despite
rationalist criticisms that Latin was inaccessible to the great
majority of people, and inconvenient and time-consuming for the
rest, did it maintain such a strong presence - some would say a
tyranny - for so long?
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