Name: Medical Latin in the Roman Empire By D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)
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Medical Latin in the Roman Empire by D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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.

Medical Latin in the Roman Empire Reviews

Langslow's work is an important contribution to our understanding of the field. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *
This is one of the most thoroughgoing attempts to place Latin lexicological studies on a quantitive basis. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *
... an unusual air of intellectual dialogue within the work, and a sense that this area of Latin linguistics has made real progress since the mid-1980s. This book both summarizes this progress and builds on it; it offers a range of new approaches to technical languages, potentially applicable to other branches of Latin and indeed to other languages as well. In doing so, [Langslow] gives a fine example of how classical philology can go on contributing to debate within modern general linguistics. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *
Very welcome linguistical study of terminology in Latin medical texts. * Medical History *
The author must be praised for combining the tasks of a linguist with those of a classicist. * Medical History *
The book and the three indexes included in the appendix will be used as an essential reference tool for future research. * Medical History *

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Medical Latin in the Roman Empire by D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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Oxford Classical Monographs

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Oxford University Press

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2000-06-08

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534

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Medical Latin in the Roman Empire D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

Medical Latin in the Roman Empire by D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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Medical Latin in the Roman Empire by D. R. Langslow (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Manchester, and Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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