Course I2205 · Year II · Summer 2024-2025

THE LANGUAGE OF HISTORICAL SOURCES. LATIN LANGUAGE

Compulsory course in History, taught by Marcela Claudia Ciortea.

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Overview

Lecturer
Marcela Claudia Ciortea
Seminar tutor
Marcela Claudia Ciortea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, debate, presentation.

Aims

Exercising intelligence, imposing the rigors of thinking, developing the method, logical qualities and linguistic qualities in order to form clear ideas about the history of Latin

The inclusion in a unitary and coherent structure of the problems regarding the history of the language

Formation of a wide-ranging orientation base towards the further deepening of the topics through individual study; correct mastery of specialized terms

Course contents

1. Periodization of Latin writing. The evolution of the Latin alphabet
2. Classical Latin - Caius Julius Caesar and the War Diary
3. Postclassical LatinPublius Cornelius Tacitus and the beginnings of the chronicle
4. Late Latin. Ammianus Marcellinus and the Transdisciplinary Historical Treatise
5. Latin in the Middle Ages Emperor Justinian and his Code of Laws
6. Medieval Latin. The capitulations of the Frankish kings and elements of legislation in the Middle Ages
7. Chancellery medium. Royal Donation Act: Geza I, King of Hungary, to Benedict Monastery
8. Latin in the developed. Middle AgesTestamentary deed and usufruct
9. Latin in the Late Middle Ages. Treaty of alliance and obedience
10. Latin at the dawn of the modern age. The act of sale-purchase
11. Neo-Latin, the academic language. Dimitrie Cantemir and the History Treatise: The History of the Ottoman Empire
 

Learning outcomes

Inclusion in a unitary and coherent structure of the main theories regarding the history of the Latin language

Assessment

Written exam 50% and oral 50%

Recommended reading

Annales ab excess Divi Augusti
Cornelii Taciti
Numa, Nieuwe Uitgevermij, Amsterdam, 1943 · ---
Inochentie Micu-Klein. Exilul la Roma (1745-1768). Studiul Exilul lui Inochentie Micu-Klein la Roma (1745-1768
Francisc Pall
Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj Napoca, 1997 · ---
Roman history.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1982 · ---