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Style in Late Classical and Medieval Latin - Erich Auerbach: Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. Pp. x+408. London: Routledge, 1965. Cloth, 35s. net.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Peter Dronke
Affiliation:
Clare Hall, Cambridge

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1966

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1 e.g. p. 121, n. 28: the Old English ‘literary flowering was prevented by the Norman invasion’ (for ‘zerstort’); p. 208 ‘social and vestimentary detail’ (for ‘Modisches’); pp. 264, 270 the translator's confusion of the twelfth with the eleventh century makes the argument incomprehensible at crucial moments; p. 273 ‘pompous sentence structure’ (for ‘feierlich’); the bibliographical references on p. 52, n. 24 have become garbled.