Latin Or the Empire of the Sign

A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world.

Francoise Waquet is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris

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

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Latin Or the Empire of the Sign

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