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Item Details
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LATIN
A SYMBOL'S EMPIRE |
| By: |
Francois Waquet, John Howe (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859846157 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859846155 |
| Publisher: |
VERSO BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
23 May, 2001 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
A readable history of Latin between the 16th and 20th centuries - a period when it dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. |
| Synopsis: |
This work explores the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted and transmitted as well as the privilege it came to confer on those that studied it. Waquet demonstrates how Latin became a symbol of status and ultimately shows that rather than disappearing this has given way to a nostalgic exoticism such that water companies and car-models now use Latin names. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Verso Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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