TY - BOOK ID - 95847037 TI - Latin or the empire of the sign : From the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries AU - Waquet, Françoise AU - Howe, John PY - 2001 SN - 1859846157 9781859846155 PB - London Verso DB - UniCat KW - Latin language, Medieval and modern KW - Latin language KW - Liturgical language KW - Humanists KW - Study and teaching KW - Latin KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life KW - Latin philology KW - Liturgical Latin KW - Scholars KW - Classical philology KW - Latin literature KW - Liturgical use KW - Church Latin KW - Intellectual life. KW - Humanists. KW - Latin language, Medieval and modern. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Latin. KW - Europa KW - Europe. KW - Vida intelectual. KW - Latin language - Study and teaching - Europe KW - Liturgical language - Latin KW - Humanists - Europe KW - Europe - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:95847037 AB - A wide-ranging & highly readable history of Latin between the sixteenth & twentieth centuries - a period when it dominated the civic & sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. Latin explores the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted & transmitted as well as the privilege it came to confer on those that studied it. Annotation. Though the once burning question of Latin's place in school curricula has been overshadowed by other issues, Waquet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) feels the need for a resolutely historical account of the language that is not a pamphlet or an exercise in special pleading. She writes a social history of Latin in the modern era, analyzing the uses made of it and the discourses concerning it. The 1998 Le latin ou l'empire d'un signe, published by Editions Albin Michel, is translated by John Howe. ER -