Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler
A Biography of Latin
A concise history of Latin, following its ascent from a regional dialect to the lingua franca of empire, church, and learning, and charting its roles through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the scientific revolution. It explains how the language shaped law, literature, education, and European identity, why it yielded to vernaculars, and how its legacy survives in Romance languages, technical vocabularies, and modern revivals. Blending linguistic insight with cultural history, it shows how a so‑called “dead” language still animates the contemporary world.
- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 360-400
- Original Language
- English
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