Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin
Número de páginas: 232 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 14-12-2023
EAN: 9781350214897
ISBN: 978-1-350-21489-7
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent - in verse or in prose - on both the pro-Habsburg and pro-Bourbon sides. Ranging from official documents, epic, satirical and panegyric poetry to defamatory pamphlets, letters, historiographical and juridical tracts, medals and ephemeral architecture, this vast textual corpus has gone almost unnoticed.