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Latin, or, The empire of the sign : from the sixteenth to the twentieth century by Françoise Waquet is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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A wide-ranging & highly readable history of Latin between the sixteenth & twentieth centuries - a period when it dominated the civic & sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. Latin explores the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted & transmitted as well as the privilege it came to confer on those that studied it. Annotation. Though the once burning question of Latin's place in school curricula has been overshadowed by other issues, Waquet (Centre Natio
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Françoise Waquet
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781859846155
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (10 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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