Reading Medieval Latin
Cambridge University Press, 8/24/1995
EAN 9780521447478, ISBN10: 052144747X
Paperback, 416 pages, 21 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax. (Users of Reading Latin will find that it follows on after the end of section 5 of that course.) It is an anthology, organised chronologically and thematically in four parts. Each part is divided into chapters with introductory material, texts, and commentaries which give help with syntax, sentence-structure, and background. There are brief sections on medieval orthography and grammar, together with a vocabulary which includes words (or meanings) not found in standard classical dictionaries. The texts chosen cover areas of interest to students of medieval history, philosophy, theology, and literature.
Introduction
Part I. The Foundations of Christian Latin
1. Education
2. Liturgy and divine office
3. The Bible
4. The Church fathers
5. The new Christian genres
Part II. Early Medieval Latin
6. Hiberno-Latin
7. Anglo-Latin
8. Continental Latin
9. The Carolingian Renaissance
10. The Ottonian Renaissance
Part III. From the End of the Ottonian Renaissance (1002) to the Concordat of Worms (1122)
11. The Norman conquests
12. The 'Investiture Contest'
13. The First Crusade
14. Philosophy and theology
15. Poetry
Part IV. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
16. The schools and the scholastic method
17. The religious life
18. Theology and philosophy
19. Historical writing
20. Court literature
Grammar
Orthography
Note on vocabulary
Vocabulary.