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Published: 26 January 2006
...The twentieth century was marked by an accelerating intensity of critical attention to Virgil, triggered initially by a revaluation of the merits of Latin literature in comparison to its Greek models. This chapter takes a short passage of the Aeneid, what might appear little more...
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Published: 25 December 2008
...David Roy Shackleton Bailey (1917–2005), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a prodigious scholar, a towering figure in textual criticism and the editing and translating of Latin literature, and a brilliant student of Roman Republican history, prosopography, and society. His work amounts to some...
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Richard Sharpe and Alan Deyermond
Published: 29 November 2007
... in most medieval studies. It provides background information on Latin language of the earlier middle ages and discusses Latin literature. Augustine Saint of Hippo Christianity Cox Leonard Dalmatia education Hadrian the African humanism Ireland Latin Magyars North Africa Latin in Pannonia Roman...
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Published: 24 November 2005
... which to assess the poeticism of the principal authors of Anglo-Latin prose. The study of poeticism in Anglo-Latin prose, and in medieval Latin literature in general, is a subject that awaits exploration. crudescere ere erunt grandaeuus Bede Tacitus Vergil compounds poeticism edax esco...
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Published: 24 November 2005
...The possibility that quantitative clausulae were sought by authors of the Latin literature of the medieval West offers a new means of entering the debate over ‘continuity or discontinuity’ between late antiquity and the Latin Middle Ages. The principles and aims of calculating prose rhythm, whether...