Latin

or, the Empire of a Sign

Françoise Waquet (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

354 Seiten

2002
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-85984-402-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A history of Latin between the 16th and 20th centuries, exploring 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. This is a work of reference, but it is also a cultural history.

Autor

Françoise Waquet is director of research emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Latin, or the Empire of a Sign is the opening volume in a highly praised sequence of books on the social worlds of intellectuals, continued most recently with Une histoire émotionnelle du savoir (2019).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.12.2002
• Übersetzer: John Howe
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 157 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 552 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-85984-402-2 / 1859844022
• ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-402-1 / 9781859844021
• Zustand: Neuware