基本説明
New in paperback. Hardocver was published in 2001. Translated by John Howe. Françoise Waquet's history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1 (4)
Part I ``The European Sign'' 5 (114)
``Latin Country'': School 7 (34)
The ``Latin Stronghold'': the Church 41 (39)
Latin Scholarship 80 (20)
A Familiar World 100(19)
Part II Standards and Ability 119(54)
Introduction 121(3)
Written Latin 124(28)
Oral Latin 152(21)
Part III What Latin Meant 173(98)
Introduction 175(3)
Making the Man 178(29)
``Class'' 207(23)
The Power to Say and to Conceal 230(27)
Yearning for the Universal 257(14)
Conclusion 271(4)
Select Bibliography 275(5)
Notes 280(60)
Index 340
