Latin in medieval Britain /
Latin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire. This collection considers key issues arising from the use of Latin in Britain from the 6th to the 16th centuries. Latin in this period was not the native language of its users but was nevertheless used extensively for a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Includes some text in Latin. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
206. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Ashdowne and Carolinne White
- The start of Anglo-Latin tradition / David Howlett
- The 12th century renaissance in Anglo-Norman England : William of Malmesbury and Joseph of Exeter
- From chronicles to customs accounts : the uses of Latin in the long 14th century . Wendy R. Childs
- Elephans in camera : Latin and Latinity in 15th- and early-16th-century England / Robert Swanson
- The Latin of the early English common law / Paul Brand
- English music theory in medieval Latin / LeoFranc Holford-Strevens
- Latin in ecclesiastical contexts / Carolinne White
- The introduction of Arabic words in Medieval British Latin scientific writings / Charles Burnett
- 'Go and look in the Latin books' : Latin and the vernacular in Medieval Wales / Paul Russell
- Official and unofficial Latin words in 11th- and 12th-century England / Richard Sharpe
- On non-integrated vocabulary in the mixed-language accounts of St Paul's Cathedral, 1315-1405 / Laura Wright
- Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin, and words of Germanic origin / David Trotter
- The DMLBS and OED : Medieval Latin and the lexicography of English / Philip Durkin and Samantha Schad
- Making the dictionary of Medieval Latin from British sources / David Howlett
- Index.