Raby F.J.E. The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse

Betts G. , Franklin D. Beginning Latin Poetry Reader: 70 Passages from Classical Roman Verse and Drama. - McGraw-Hill, 2006. - 320 p. Embrace your Roman muse! As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts. Requiring only a grounding in t...

Dickey E. Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius. - Oxford University Press, 2002. - 434 p. How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another "dearest, " "master, " "brother, " "human being, " "executioner, " or "soft little cheese, " what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries...

Grandgent C. H. An Introduction to Vulgar Latin. - Boston, D.C. Heath & Co. , 1907. - 248 p. The modern study of Classical Latin creates the illusion that it is a precisely-defined and immutable language; but all living languages are changing continuously, and Latin was no exception. Even in the Classical period many varieties of Latin were written and spoken, and as the Empire collapsed Latin, especially the spoken language of the common pe...

Groton A.H. , May J.M. 38 Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin. - Bolchazy Carducci, 1998. - 104 p. Though intended as a supplement to Wheelock's Latin, this book is well suited for use in any introductory Latin course. All the stories in the book are based on actual Latin literature, with the stories simplified at first and made gradually more complex as the work progresses. Students will learn how classical Latin wa...

Harrington K.P. , Pucci J. Medieval Latin: Second Edition. - University Of Chicago Press, 1997. - 679 p. ISBN: 0226317137 K. P. Harrington's Mediaeval Latin, the standard medieval Latin anthology used in the United States since its initial publication in 1925, has now been completely revised and updated for today's students and teachers by Joseph Pucci. This new edition of the classic anthology retains its breadth of coverage, but increases its...

Harrison F. E. Millennium: A Latin Reader (A.D. 374-1374). - Oxford University Press, 1968. - 255 p. Intended for anyone interested in exploring the range of Latin literature beyond the confines of the 'classical' period, Millenium explores writing ranging from the Bible to the Carmina Burana, and authors ranging from St. Anselm to William of Malmesbury. Each of the book's seven sections includes an insightful introduction, and the book also fea...

Herman J. Vulgar Latin. - Pennsylvania State UP, 2000. - 130 p. ISBN: 0271020016 Vulgar Latin refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although Vulgar Latin is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and vocabulary that occur in texts of the later Roman Empire, late antiquity, and the early Middle Ages. Every aspect of V...

Niermeyer J.F. Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus: Lexique Latin Medieval - A Medieval Latin Dictionary. - Brill, 1976. - 1138 p. Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus is a highly practical lexicon, providing researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information. The Niermeyer Lexicon Minus has proved to be invaluable to medievalists for almost 50 years and is an indispensable workin...

Rigg A.G. , Mantello F.A.C. Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide. - Catholic University of America Press, 1996. - 775 p. ISBN: 0813208424 Organized with the assistance of an international advisory committee of medievalists from several disciplines, Medieval Latin is a new standard guide to the Latin language and literature of the period from c. A.D. 200 to 1500. It promises to be indispensable as a handbook in university co...

Sidwell K. Reading Medieval Latin. - Cambridge University Press, 1995. - 398 p. ISBN: 052144747X Reading Medieval Latin is an anthology of Medieval Latin texts, arranged chronologically and thematically with introductions, commentaries and a vocabulary of nonclassical words and meanings. It is a language textbook, designed to introduce students with one year or more of Latin to the Latin writing and culture of the period A.D. 550- 1200. It is t...