Latin Language and the Enlightenment

This volume of essays offers a new perspective on the Enlightenment by looking at the uses of Latin in the long eighteenth century. The essays demonstrate how the language remained prominent in cultural life and how Latin sources can help us improve our understanding of this fascinating period in history.

About the author

Floris Verhaart is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. His research comprises the history of early modern Europe, as well as Neo-Latin Studies. His publications include Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic (1690-1750): Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (Oxford, 2020).
Laurence Brockliss is emeritus professor of early modern French History at the University of Oxford whose principal area of research is the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment. His books in the field include French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1987) and Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 2002).

Summary

The long eighteenth century is often seen as the age ‘when Europe spoke French’. The essays presented in this book demonstrate Latin continued to play a highly important role during the long eighteenth century, both within Europe and in interactions between the ‘West’ and the rest of the world.

Product details

• Authors: Floris Brockliss Verhaart
• Assisted by: Laurence Brocklis (Editor), Laurence Brockliss (Editor), Floris Verhaart (Editor)
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2023
• EAN: 9781802077735
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-773-5
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day