Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Century England, Volume One: Texts

by Tony Hunt

Based on nearly two hundred manuscripts containing vernacular glosses, this is the first systematic study of the teaching aids which constituted the set-texts of Latin instruction in thirteenth-century England, some of which are printed here for the first time. These glosses provide the key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859913376
• ISBN13: 9780859913379
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"