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Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses providethe key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. An essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture.
Price: $170.00
Pages: 373
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Publication Date:
19 December 1991
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9780859913393
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Ancient, classical and medieval texts
`The rich cultural insights afforded by the study of medieval Latin are only beginning to be appreciated. In this difficult study of the text-books through which Latin was learned, together with the Latin, Anglo-Norman and English glosses to be found in their manuscript versions, Tony Hunt makes a pioneering attempt to understand its relationship to the vernaculars spoken in England.