Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean

by Karla Mallette

Book Overview

The story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.

In this ambitious book, Karla Mallette studies the nature and behaviors of the medieval cosmopolitan languages of learning-classical Arabic and medieval Latin-as they crossed the Mediterranean. Through anecdotes of relationships among writers, compilers, translators, commentators, and copyists, Mallette tells a complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022679606X
• ISBN13: 9780226796062
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"