Western Languages AD 100-1500
Author: Philippe Wolff
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 256
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Author: Philippe Wolff
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Published: 2003
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Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971-09-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780303762812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philippe Wolff
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780303762805
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Published: 1997
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Published: 1971
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas Ostler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-05-26
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 080271840X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and has defined the way in which we express our thoughts, our faith, and our knowledge of how the world functions. Indeed, the language has proved far more enduring than its empire in Rome, its use echoing on in the law codes of half the world, in the terminologies of modern science, and until forty years ago, in the liturgy of the Catholic Church. It is the unseen substance that makes us members of the Western world. In his erudite and entertaining "biography," Nicholas Ostler shows how and why (against the odds, through conquest from within and without) Latin survived and thrived even as its creators and other languages failed. Originally the dialect of Rome and its surrounds, Latin supplanted its neighbors to become, by conquest and settlement, the language of all Italy, and then of Western Europe and North Africa. Its cultural creep toward Greek in the East led it to copy and then ally with it in an unprecedented, but invincible combination: Greek theory and Roman practice, delivered through Latin, became the foundation of Western civilization. Christianity, a latecomer, then joined the alliance, and became vital to Latin's survival when the empire collapsed. Spoken Latin re-emerged as a host of new languages, from Portuguese and Spanish in the west to Romanian in the east. But a knowledge of Latin lived on as the common code of European thought, and inspired the founders of Europe's New World in the Americas. E pluribus unum. Illuminating the extravaganza of its past, Nicholas Ostler makes clear that, in a thousand echoes, Latin lives on, ad infinitum.
Author: Tore Janson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0199604282
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Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-10-22
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521317634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
Author: T. Kamusella
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-12-16
Total Pages: 1167
ISBN-13: 0230583474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.