Author: Waquet, Francoise
Title: Latin or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Description: London / New York, Verso, (2001). orig.boards. 24x15cm, vi,346 pp, Translated by John Howe.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: "The European Sign": "Latin Country": School; The "Latin Stronghold": the Church; Latin Scholarship; A Familiar World; Standards & Ability: Written Latin; Oral Latin; What Latin Meant: Making the Man; " Class"; The Power to Say & to Conceal; Yearning for the Universal.

Keywords: Latin, Language History, Linguistic, Romance Languages, European Cultural, Literary, Literature, ,