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Article: Tous vos gens a Latin: Le Latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles).(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2007
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Tons vos gens a latin: le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siecles). Ed. by Emmanuel Bury. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 405) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 463 pp. SwF 132. ISBN 978-2-600-00975-1.
This handsome volume brings together twenty-four papers first presented at an inter-national colloquium, held at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) in October 2000, on the relationship between Latin--the language of scholarship and sciences--and the domains of which it was the preferred medium. The collection thus inscribes itself in a very productive current of academic reflection on the role, impact, and spread of a linguistic phenomenon, a current ...