Author: Eileen A. GooderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"... A self-teaching manual and guide to the kind of Latin met with in historical records.".
Latin for Local History
Author: Eileen A. GooderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"... A self-teaching manual and guide to the kind of Latin met with in historical records.".
Latin for Local History
Author: Eileen A. GooderLatin for local history
Author: Latin for Local History
Author: Eileen A. GooderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Latin for Local History provides a self-teaching guide for those historians who wish to tackle the language in which the majority of pre-eighteenth century historical records have been written. It is unique in dealing only with Latin found in historical records of the medieval period. Practice material and exercises are provided in the form of documents most commonly encountered by the historian in their research - deeds, charters, court rolls, accounts, bishops' registers and so on.
Latin for Local History
Author: Eileen A. GooderLatin for Local and Family Historians
Author: Denis StuartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Latin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material. Despite the wide-spread popular interest in research into local and family history there has been no recent text book to help the beginner to cope with the great barrier preventing access to that wealth of information ... medieval Latin. This new book remedies the omission. It embodies the author's experience as a university teacher of Latin and local history over twenty years, deriving from the notes and material developed for the Latin examination in the local history certificate courses which he organised. After dealing with the basic grammar of Latin, this very practical book examines the structure and vocabulary of the records used in local and family research, including parish registers, marriage licences and bonds, episcopal visitations, church court records, sepulchral inscriptions, wills, manorial court rolls, charters and deeds. A final chapter explains the abbreviations used in medieval Latin. The book is complete in itself and contains all the necessary tables of declensions and conjugations plus a glossary of more than eight hundred words. The book is uniquely 'user-friendly'. The tempo of instruction is slow; the passages for translation are carefully graded for grammar and vocabulary and selected both for their instrinsic interest and for their representative character. The author believes that, although Latin cannot be made simple, it is nevertheless manageable. The reader who works systematically through the book will be equipped to handle the Latin of the documents encountered by the do-it-yourself local or family historian. Following the enormous success of his earlier Manorial Records (1992), the author has now furnished the researcher with another invaluable guide to fill an even more fundamental gap in the 'how-to-do-it' library. All previous, partial attempts to deal with the problems of medieval Latin sources are totally eclipsed by this welcome new primer -- both comprehensive and easy to use. Book jacket.
LATIN GLOSSARY FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORIANS.
Author: JANET. MORRISPublisher:
ISBN: 9781916599031
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Latin Glossary for Family and Local Historians
Author: Janet MorrisPublisher: Sterling/Main Street
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Natural History of Latin
Author: Tore JansonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191622656
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. Tore Janson tells its history from origins to present. Brilliantly conceived and written with the same light touch as his bestselling history of languages, A Natural History of Latin is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis. The author charts the expansion of Latin in the classical world, its renewed importance in the Middle Ages, and its survival into modern times. He shows how spoken and written Latin evolved in different places and its central role in European history and culture. He ends with a concise Latin grammar and lists of Latin words and phrases still in common use. Considered elitist and irrelevant in the second half of the twentieth century and often even banned from schools, Latin is now enjoying a huge revival of interest across Europe, the UK, and the USA. Tore Janson offers persuasive arguments for its value and gives direct access to its fascinating worlds, past and present.
The Contemporary History of Latin America
Author: Tulio Halperín DonghiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822313748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general history of Latin America in the Spanish-speaking world. Unparalleled in scope, attentive to the paradoxes of Latin American reality, and known for its fine-grained interpretation, it is now available for the first time in English. Revised and updated by the author, superbly translated, this landmark of Latin American historiography will be accessible to an entirely new readership. Beginning with a survey of the late colonial landscape, The Contemporary History of Latin America traces the social, economic, and political development of the region to the late twentieth century, with special emphasis on the period since 1930. Chapters are organized chronologically, each beginning with a general description of social and economic developments in Latin America generally, followed by specific attention to political matters in each country. What emerges is a well-rounded and detailed picture of the forces at work throughout Latin American history. This book will be of great interest to all those seeking a general overview of modern Latin American history, and its distinctive Latin American voice will enhance its significance for all students of Latin American history.