Cultural History of Latin – Essay Topics
Student/Date Topic
Literature1
Latin as an Indo-European J. Clackson (ed.), A Companion to the Latin Language, Oxford 2011, 199-219.
Blažević
R. B. Palmer, The Latin Language, London 1954, 3-58.
Language
(March 27)
A. L. Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York 1995, 1-17.
Standardisation of Latin: From J. Clackson (ed.), A Companion to the Latin Language, Oxford 2011, 220-256.
Bratulić
Archaic to Classical
R. B. Palmer, The Latin Language, London 1954, 95-140.
(March 27)
H. Rosén, Latine loqui: Trends and directions in the crystallization of Classical Latin, München
1999, 11-40, 177-186.
Latin in Church
Džanić
J. Clackson (ed.), A Companion to the Latin Language, Oxford 2011, 485-502.
A. Dégert, Latin, Ecclesiastical, in: The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.2
(April 10)
A. Hamilton, Humanists and the Bible, in: Jill Kraye (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to
Renaissance Humanism, 1996, 100-117
J. IJsewijn, D. Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Second, entirely rewritten edition, vol. 2,
Leuven 1998, 178, 202, 210, 215-216, 288-292.
H. P. V. Nunn, An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin, Cambridge 1922, 1-7.
K. Sidwell, Reading Medieval Latin, Cambridge 1995, 5-65. (introductions into individual
sections)
R. B. Palmer, The Latin Language, London 1954, 181-205.
The use of the Latin language3
Latin in Science
Jangjel
J. Clackson (ed.), A Companion to the Latin Language, Oxford 2011, 445-484.
J. IJsewijn, D. Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Second, entirely rewritten edition, vol. 2,
(April 10)
Leuven 1998, 282-284, 312-313, 324-344, 361.
1
For some titles you will need to install DJVU Viewer (http://djvu.org/resources/).
2
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09019a.htm
3
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/details/ns_lit_doc_20091117_lingua-latina_en.html
Maglica
(May 8)
Latin in Medicine and Biology
TomljenovićBelicza
(May 8)
Latin Humour
O. E. Nybakken, Greek and Latin in Scientific Terminology, Ames 1959, 1-61.
F. R. Johnson, Latin versus English: the Sixteenth-Century Debate over Scientific
Terminology, Studies in Philology 41 (1944), 109-135.
E. Limbrick, To write in Latin or in the vernacular: Intellectual dilemma in an age of
transition. The case of Descartes, History of European Ideas, 16: 1-3 (1993), 75-80.
J. IJsewijn, D. Sacré, Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Second, entirely rewritten edition, vol. 2,
Leuven 1998, 345-349, 357-359.
H. G. Trüper, The Use of Neo-Latin in Biological Nomenclature, Neulateinische Jahrbuch 6
(2004), 318-327.
E. Marečková et al., Latin as the language of medical terminology: some remarks on its role
and prospects, SWISS MED WKLY 132 (2002), 581–587.
E. McCutcheon, Latin and Its Uses in William Bullein’s Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence,
in: Roda Schnur et al. (eds.), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Hafniensis, Binghamton–New York
1994, 633-640.
W. T. Stearn, Botanical Latin: history, grammar, syntax, terminology, and vocabulary, Devon 1985,
6-47.
B. C. Bowen, Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance, Aldershot 2004, 409-429.
J. IJsewijn, Neo-Latin satire: Sermo and Satyra Menippea, in: R. Bolgar (ed.), Classical
Influences on European Culture A. D. 1500-1700, Cambridge 1976: 41-55.
M. Verweij, Comic elements in 16th century Latin school drama in the Low Countries,
Humanistica Lovaniensia 53 (2004), 175-190.
A. Visser, Ridicula ambitio: The Social Function of Humour in the Emblems of Joannes
Sambucus, Humanistica Lovaniensia 53 (2004), 199-218.
The size of the essay should be 3000-3500 words. Useful guidelines can be found here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Writing_Better_University_Essays (especially the Referencing section).
Make sure that your essay has the Title page with all the relevant information (institution name, your name, essay title, course name, teacher,
date) the Introduction, several sections which clearly articulate the subject matter, the Conclusion and the List of References.
Final date for submission (sdemo@hrstud.hr): May 23, 2015. Oral presentations should last 20 minutes.