Latinity

Summary

Latinity (Latinitas) is proficiency in Latin. The term may also be used to refer to the use of Latinisms or the imitation of Latin style.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Latinity in Chris Baldick (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, 4th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Further reading edit

  • W. Martin Bloomer, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).
  • Rebecca Stephenson, Emily V. Thornbury (eds.), Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
  • Jacqueline Glomski, Gesine Manuwald, Andrew Taylor (eds.), Baroque Latinity: Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque (Bloomsbury, 2023).