Product Description: This new interpretation of the baffling Latin grammars of the seventh-century writer Virgilius Maro Grammaticus sets aside conventional readings that see them as flawed or parodic. Vivien Law's analysis moves through the broader context of patristic biblical exegesis and early medieval wisdom literature to the ill-documented reaches of heterodox initiatory practices...read more

Product Description: Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect evolving modes of thinking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a collection of ‘linguistic autobiographies' by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists...read more

Product Description: One of the most pressing linguistic problems of the early Middle Ages was to determine how Latin, first introduced into the British Isles and other parts of Northern Europe as the language of the Christian church and Roman civilization, could be taught as a foreign language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Surveys of linguistics in the Middle Ages often begin with the 12th century, dismissing the previous six centuries as "devoid of originality" or "dependent upon Donatus and Priscian". This collection of articles devoted to linguistics in the early Middle Ages attempts to redress the balance by presenting a variety of approaches to current and controversial questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The adaptation of Late Latin grammars from the schools of the Roman Empire for use in a foreign Christian society culminated in the British Isles in the 7th and 8th centuries in the development of two distinct types of grammar designed respectively for elementary and for more advanced students...read more