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De rationibus quibus homines docti artem Latine colloquendi et ex tempore dicendi saeculis XVI et XVII coluerunt
SUPPLEMENTA HUMANISTICA LOVANIENSIA XXXI
DE RATIONIBUS QUIBUS HOMINES DOCTI ARTEM LATINE COLLOQUENDI ET EX TEMPORE DICENDI SAECULIS XVI ET XVII COLUERUNT
TERENTIUS TUNBERG
Terence O. Tunberg
Study of conversational Latin and ex tempore expression in Latin The use of Latin for conversation and ex tempore discourse was a signifi cant 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 NeoLatin in general. All texts in this volume are in Latin.
LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
terence o. tunberg is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Kentucky and is co-Director of the University of Kentucky Institute for Latin Studies. He is a member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae.
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€44,50 / £37.50 isbn 978 90 5867 916 1 September 2012 Paperback, 16 x 24 cm ca. 140 p. Latin Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 31
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