Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture

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Dr Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)

Living Latin

Everyday Language and Popular Culture

Dr Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
08 February 2024

Language: history & general works; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Rubicon

What 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 ordinary people. 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.

And of course Latin lived on: this account revisits what happened to the language after the Roman empire, tracing its twin streams — intellectual lingua franca 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.

Kerrigan'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 for all.

By: Dr Charlie Kerrigan (Trinity College Dublin Ireland)
Edited by: Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 184g
ISBN: 9781350377035
ISBN 10: 1350377031
Series: Rubicon
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 08 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charlie Kerrigan is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He is author of Virgil’s Map (Bloomsbury, 2020) and blogs at Confabulations, part of the Living Latin Project at TCD.

Reviews for Living Latin: Everyday Language and Popular Culture

Kerrigan’s insistence on the interconnectedness of history, culture, and language brings to the fore the power that language and narrative have in shaping our perception of empire, institutions, and education. * Religious Studies Review *