Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807820687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Latin to Read I was interested in the music and so I tried to read the lyrics. It's a very challenging test of your Latin skills. Very deep and profound. A priest friend of mine really liked it, too.. "I used this book while teaching a unit on Carmina" according to Barbara Landis. I used this book while teaching a unit on Carmina Burana to one of my advanced Latin classes - very helpful notes on literature and culture, not so much on the grammar, though, so make sure you've got some other help for the differences between medieval and classical Latin. The translations are more 'literary' than literal.
Martin, Princeton University. Walsh's unmatched erudition in Latin literature furnishes lucid grammatical explanations, incisive analysis of goliardic literary values and technique, and illuminating references to ancient and medieval parallels. P. Walsh's book should be a vade mecum for anyone who would teach the Carmina Burana on any level and be of considerable value in general to medievalists, comparatists, and those in related disciplines.--New England Classical Newsletter and Journal"Teachers, students, and any reader interested in medieval lyric will find this volume a clear and useful approach to intrinsically interesting texts.--Renaissance Quarterly"The most scholarly and most helpful presentation of a group of these c