Women Writing in Latin (Women Writers of the World, 6)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 2002
Language: eng; lat
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780815332596
Subjects: Roman Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; History and criticism; Latin literature; Latin literature, Medieval and modern; Women and literature; Women authors; Literature: Classics
First sentence: In The Medieval Experience, Francis Oakley writes that sixth-century Frankish kingdoms combined Germanic culture, Roman Christianity, and the Latin language "to create a new cultural unity that may without qualification be called European."