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De Rationibus Quibus Homines Docti Artem Latine Colloquendi Et Ex - Tempore Dicendi Saeculis XVI Et XVII Coluerun

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 19.02.2013

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The use of Latin for conversation and ex tempore discourse was a significant element in the culture of learned people in the humanist age and the early modern era. This book explores that phenomenon and the considerable amount of evidence pertaining to it in the primary sources written in the period. The author takes into account the use of spoken Latin both inside and outside the academic world. Examining disputes over pronunciation and different views about ex tempore eloquence among Latin writers active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author shows that these 'conversations' are not unrelated to much better known discussions and debates about the nature of Latin prose style and eloquence in an age when Latin was no one's native language. The book thus reveals that understanding the role of conversation and ex tempore expression in Latin helps us to understand the early modern phenomenon of Neo-Latin in general. All texts in this volume are in Latin.

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Authors Terence O. Tunberg, TUNBERG TERENCE O
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 19.02.2013, delayed
 
EAN 9789058679161
ISBN 978-90-5867-916-1
No. of pages 140
Series Supplementa Humanistica Lovani
SUPPLEMENTA HUM
Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia
Supplementa Humanistica Lovani
SUPPLEMENTA HUM
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology

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