This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. Excerpts are taken from Bede and other historians, from the letters of women written from their monasteries, from famous documents such as Domesday Book and Magna Carta, and from accounts and legal documents, all revealing the lives of individuals at home and on their travels across Britain and beyond. It offers an insight into Latin writings on many subjects, showing the important role of Latin in the multilingual society of medieval Britain, in which Latin was the primary language of written communication and record and also developed, particularly after the Norman Conquest, through mutual influence with English and French. The thorough introductions to each volume provide a broad overview of the linguistic and cultural background, while the individual texts are placed in their social, historical and linguistic context.
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This anthology presents in two volumes a series of Latin texts (with English translation) produced in Britain during the period AD 450-1500. It is aimed at those interested in Latin, medieval culture, the history of Britain, and the important role of Latin beside English and French in the Middle Ages.
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A two-volume anthology of Latin texts, with English translation, on many different subjects written by the people of medieval Britain.

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ISBN
9781316637319
Publisert
2024-02-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
2130 gr
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
176 mm
Dybde
65 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
1048

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Biographical note

Carolinne White was a member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. She collaborated on the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, completed in 2013, is the author of Christian Ideas of Friendship in the Fourth Century (1992) and has translated Early Christian Lives (1997), The Rule of Benedict (2007) and Lives of Roman Christian Women (2010) for Penguin Classics. Catherine Conybeare is Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. She is an authority on the Latin texts of late antiquity, and is the author of five books, most recently Augustine the African (2024). She is also the editor of a new series for Cambridge University Press, Cultures of Latin.