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This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on
education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what
they considered the value of education and its effect on children.
W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and
contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to
the third century CE--the epoch of rhetorical education. He
examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts
by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education.
Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy
includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its
practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting
were intended to instill in the young social as well as
intellectual ideas.
For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to
write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But
although such skill was esteemed in medieval times, the language of
ancient Rome was as various as the styles of slaves and masters.
Latinity and Literary Society at Rome reaches back to the early
Roman empire to examine attitudes toward latinity, reviewing the
contested origins of scholarly Latin in the polemical arena of
Roman literature. W. Martin Bloomer shows how that literature's
reflections on correct and incorrect speech functioned as part of a
wider understanding of social relations and national identity in
Rome. Bloomer's investigation begins with questions about the
sociology of Latin literature-what interests were served by the
creation of high style and how literary stylization constituted a
system of social decorum-and goes on to offer readings of selected
texts. Through studies of works ranging from Varro's De lingua
latina to the verse fables of Augustine's freeman Phaedrus to the
Annals of Tacitus, Bloomer examines conflicting claims to style not
simply to set true Latin against vulgarism but also to ask who is
excluding whom, why, and by what means. These texts exemplify the
ways Roman literature employs representations of, and reflections
on, proper and improper language to mirror the interests of
specific groups who wished to maintain or establish their place in
Roman society. They show how writers sought to influence the
fundamental social issue of who had the power to confer legitimacy
of speech and how their works used claims of linguistic propriety
to reinforce the definition of "Romanness." Through Bloomer's study
latinity emerges as a contested field of identity and social
polemic heretofore unrecognized in classical scholarship. With its
fresh interpretations of major and minor texts, Latinity and
Literary Society at Rome is a literary history that significantly
advances our understanding of the place of language in ancient
Rome.
Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Valerius Maximus's
"Memorable Deeds and Sayings" was the most widely read prose after
the Bible. Bloomer revives this classic text to examine how, why,
and for whom Valerius composed this collection of rhetorical
examples. He argues that the work expresses the concerns and
anxieties of literate first-century Romans and shows that it
creates paradigms for a new culture.
Originally published in 1992.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
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historical and cultural value.
This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on
education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what
they considered the value of education and its effect on children.
W. Martin Bloomer details the processes, exercises, claims, and
contexts of liberal education from the late first century BCE to
the third century CE - the epoch of rhetorical education. He
examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts
by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education.
Bloomer argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy
includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its
practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting
were intended to instill in the young social as well as
intellectual ideas.
These essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines
and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical
efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional,
academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to
elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and
intellectual consequences of that elevation. Essays by Seamus
Deane, Tony Crowley, and Peter McQuillan deal with aspects of the
suppression, survival, and revival of Irish language. W Martin
Bloomer, Theodore J Cachey Jr, and Richard Hunter apply modern
issues of the contest of language to Greek, Latin, and the
emergence of the vernacular in Europe. Haun Saussy discusses
differing conceptions of linguistic power implicit in
seventeenth-century attempts to construct schemes for universal
communication. Susan Blum analyzes the relationship between
minority and dominant language in China. Demitri Gutas describes
the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic. Joseph
Amar discusses the uses and fortunes of Syria. Vittorio Hosle
concludes the collection with an essay on the spread of English as
the 'universal language.' phenomenon will find this book
invaluable.
These essays, written by eminent scholars from diverse disciplines
and perspectives, consider various present-day and historical
efforts to make a language dominant through textual, institutional,
academic, and literary means. Contributors examine pressures to
elevate one language at the expense of another and the cultural and
intellectual consequences of that elevation. Essays by Seamus
Deane, Tony Crowley, and Peter McQuillan deal with aspects of the
suppression, survival, and revival of Irish language. W Martin
Bloomer, Theodore J Cachey Jr, and Richard Hunter apply modern
issues of the contest of language to Greek, Latin, and the
emergence of the vernacular in Europe. Haun Saussy discusses
differing conceptions of linguistic power implicit in
seventeenth-century attempts to construct schemes for universal
communication. Susan Blum analyzes the relationship between
minority and dominant language in China. Demitri Gutas describes
the lack of linguistic imperialism in the spread of Arabic. Joseph
Amar discusses the uses and fortunes of Syria. Vittorio Hosle
concludes the collection with an essay on the spread of English as
the 'universal language.' phenomenon will find this book
invaluable.
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