Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose

Edited by Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

International array of experts in the field of Latin prose
Interdisciplinary approach which offers new insights into classical and medieval Latin

Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose

Edited by Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Twenty articles from two often dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth century. Language is not understood in a narrowly philological or linguistic sense, but as encompassing the literary exploitation of linguistic effects and the influence of formal rhetoric on prose. Key themes explored throughout the volume are the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. Papers cover a comprehensive range of material including studies of individual works, groups of authors such as the Republican historians, prose genres such as the ancient novel or medieval biography, and linguistic topics such as the use of connectives in archaic Latin or prose rhythm in medieval Latin. The diversity of approaches displayed from an international array of experts will make this an essential resource for all those interested in Latin language and literature.

Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose

Edited by Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

Introduction, J. N. Adams, Michael Lapidge, and Tobias Reinhardt
Connections in Archaic Latin Prose, J. H. W. Penney
Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians, J. Briscoe
The Bellum Africum, J. N. Adams
Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar's Style and its Earliest Critics, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
Cicero's Adaptation of Legal Latin in the De legibus, J. G. F. Powell
Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism, Tobias Reinhardt
Pope's Spider and Cicero's Writing, G. O. Hutchinson
The Impracticability of 'Kunstprosa', R. G. Mayer
Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca, H. M. Hine
The Language of Pliny the Elder, Harm Pinkster
Omisso speciosiore stili genere, D. R. Russell
The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Languages of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, S. J. Harrison
'Langues réduites au lexique'? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose, D. R. Langslow
of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose, Danuta Shanzer
Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose, Michael Lapidge
The Varieties of Bede's Prose, Richard Sharpe
Translator's Latin, Carlotta Dionisotti
Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: : Gerhard of Ausburg's Vita S. Uodalrici, Walter Berschin
William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited, R. M. Thomson
Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems, Giovanni Orlandi

Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose

Edited by Tobias Reinhardt, Michael Lapidge, and J. N. Adams

A British Academy Publication

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Contributors:

J. N. Adams, Michael Lapidge, and Tobias Reinhardt
J. H. W. Penney
J. Briscoe
J. N. Adams
Christina Shuttleworth Kraus
J. G. F. Powell
Tobias Reinhardt
G. O. Hutchinson
R. G. Mayer
H. M. Hine
Harm Pinkster
D. R. Russell
S. J. Harrison
D. R. Langslow
Danuta Shanzer
Michael Lapidge
Richard Sharpe
Carlotta Dionisotti
Walter Berschin
R. M. Thomson
Giovanni Orlandi