{"product_id":"living-latin-everyday-language-and-popular-culture-hardcover","title":"Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharlie Kerrigan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Harrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of \u003ci\u003eordinary \u003c\/i\u003epeople. Surveying the whole span of the language's history, it explores the evidence that exists for ordinary Latin around the Roman world, arguing that this material is just as worthy of readers' attention as the famous classics. Those classics are reassessed in the light of popular concerns, as works of art that evoke ancient, sustainable, and communal ways of living, encompassing broad and diverse traditions of readers through time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd of course Latin lived on: this account revisits what happened to the language after the Roman empire, tracing its twin streams - intellectual \u003ci\u003elingua franca\u003c\/i\u003e and a series of Romance languages - into the twenty-first century. What emerges is a human chain stretching back thousands of years and still in existence today, a story of workers and weavers, violets and roses, storytellers and musicians, a common and democratic archive of world history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKerrigan's strong and attractive case for a new conception of Latin sends out a call to arms to reevaluate the place of Latin in history. On the one hand, an interesting and readable history of the language, on the other, this book sets out to provoke questions for readers, students, and teachers of Latin, as well as anyone interested in the ancient Mediterranean world. Latin was and should always be \u003ci\u003efor all\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlie Kerrigan\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is author of \u003ci\u003eVirgil's Map\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020) and blogs at\u003ci\u003e Confabulations\u003c\/i\u003e, part of the Living Latin Project at TCD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751683981600,"sku":"9781350377028","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5900d8dcaae9b66e7d96a20282fb9a34.webp?v=1779977784","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/living-latin-everyday-language-and-popular-culture-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}