Magna Carta Latina: The Privilege of Singing, Articulating and Reading a Language and of Keeping It Alive, Second Edition

by Ford Lewis Battles and Anne Thomas Paolucci

Why another Latin grammar? The history of Latin studies is strewn with the dead bones of textbooks, conceived in enthusiasm, published in hope, and interred in despair. 'Magna Carta Latina' began in Professor Rosenstock-Huessy's son's failure in high school Latin, it flourished in teaching generations of Dartmouth students the mother-tongue of Western culture, and it found its way at long last into the precincts of theology. Can a generation that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915138077
• ISBN13: 9780915138074
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"