D. R. Langslow Medical Latin in the Roman Empire (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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Further Details Title: Medical Latin in the Roman Empire Condition: New ISBN-10: 0198152795 EAN: 9780198152798 ISBN: 9780198152798 Publisher: Oxford University Press Format: Hardback Release Date: 06/08/2000 Description: Despite the ubiquitous importance of medicine in Roman literature, philosophy, and social history, the language of Latin medical texts has not been properly studied. This book presents the first systematic account of a part of this large, rich field. Concentrating on texts of `high' medicine written in educated, even literary, Latin Professor Langslow offers a detailed linguistic profile of the medical terminology of Celsus and Scribonius Largus (first century AD) and Theodorus Priscianus and Cassius Felix (fifth century AD), with frequent comparisons with their respective near-contemporaries. The linguistic focus is on vocabulary and word-formation and the book thus addresses the large question of the possible and the preferred means of extending the vocabulary in Latin at the beginning and end of the Empire. Some syntactic issues (including word order and nominalization) are also discussed, and sections on the sociolinguistic background and stylistic features consider the question to what extent we may speak of `medical Latin' in the strong sense, as the language of a group, and draw comparisons and contrasts between ancient and modern technical languages. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 242mm Item Length: 163mm Item Width: 33mm Item Weight: 899g Author: D. R. Langslow Genre: Medicine Topic: Language & Reference, Literary Criticism Book Series: Oxford Classical Monographs Release Year: 2000 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
