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Latin for Local and Family Historians by Denis Stuart (2010, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHi-Story Press The Limited, T.H.E.
ISBN-101860773850
ISBN-139781860773853
eBay Product ID (ePID)57066302
Product Key Features
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLatin for Local and Family Historians
Publication Year2010
SubjectGenealogy & Heraldry, Latin, Ancient Languages (See Also Latin), Europe / Great Britain / General
TypeLanguage Course
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Reference, History
AuthorDenis Stuart
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight15.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal478.2/421/02499
SynopsisLatin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material. Despite the widespread popular interest in research into local and family history there has been no recent text book to help the beginner to cope with the great barrier preventing access to that wealth of information ... medieval Latin. This book remedies the omission. It embodies the author's experience as a university teacher of Latin examination in the local history certificate courses which he organised.After dealing with the basic grammar of Latin, this very practical book examines the structure and vocabulary of the records used in local and family research, including episcopal visitations, church court records, sepulchral inscriptions, wills, manorial court rolls, charters and deeds. A final chapter explains the abbreviations used in medieval Latin. The Book is complete in itself and contains all the necessary tables of declensions and conjugations plus a glossary of more than eight hundred words.The Book is uniquely 'user-friendly'. The tempo of instruction is slow; the passages for translation are carefully graded for grammar and vocabulary and selected both for their intrinsic interest and for their representative character. The author believes that, although Latin cannot be made simple, it is nevertheless manageable. The reader who works systematically through the book will be equipped to handle the Latin of the documents encountered by the do-it-yourself local or family historian.Following the enormous success of his earlier Manorial Records (1992), the author has now furnished the research with another invaluable guide to fill an even more fundamental gap in the 'how-to-do-it' library. All previous, partial attempts to deal with the problems of medieval Latin sources are totally eclipsed by this welcome primer - both comprehensive and easy to use., Latin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material, yet despite its popular interest, there has been no recent textbook to help the beginner cope with medieval Latin. This book examines the structure and vocabulary of the records used in loca and family research, including parish registers, marriage licences, episcopal visitations, wills, court rolls and deeds., Latin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material. Despite the widespread popular interest in research into local and family history there has been no recent textbook to help the beginner to cope with the great barrier preventing access to that wealth of information--medieval Latin. This book remedies the omission. It embodies the author's experience as a university teacher of Latin and local history over 20 years, deriving from the notes and material developed for the Latin examination in the local history certificate courses which he organized. After dealing with the basic grammar of Latin, this very practical book examines the structure and vocabulary of the records use in local and family research, including Episcopal visitation, church court records, sepulchral inscriptions, wills, manorial court rolls, charters, and deeds. A final chapter explains the abbreviations used in medieval Latin. The book is complete in itself and contains al the necessary tables of declensions and conjugations plus a glossary of more than 800 words. The book is uniquely user-friendly, as the pace of instruction is never rushed, and the passages for translation are carefully graded for grammar and vocabulary and selected both for their intrinsic interest and for their representative character. The reader who works systematically through the book will be equipped to handle the Latin of the documents encountered by the do-it-yourself local or family historian.
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