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Medieval Latin: Second Edition
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Release dateNovember 1997
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Found 2 comments on Medieval Latin: Second Edition:

u/Jefffrommonmouth ยท 3 pointsr/latin

Actually, I've never really used that book. I teach Medieval Latin almost every semester, and in general I just use whatever texts I'm working on at the moment.

For English, Harrington's "Medieval Latin" is pretty good, BUT the reprint is riddle with OCR errors. It's as if University of Chicago Press just scanned the old copy in and didn't check for errors. Really, it's unusable. But if you can find a copy of the first edition, you're in luck.

http://amzn.com/0226317137

I would recommend Sidwell's "Reading Medieval Latin," which will give you a pretty good grammatical overview, and it has an excellent selection of texts.

http://amzn.com/052144747X

Really, though, having a good dictionary is essential, but there unfortunately isn't one easily available. I make constant use of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources--just finished!--but it's expensive. I hear they are going to put the entire thing online soon, which would be amazing, but I'm not sure when that will be.

Uhhh...yea...I can clearly go on and on here about Medieval Latin, but I'll stop. PM me if you have any more questions.

Edit: If you have access to an academic library and can read German, Peter Stotz's work is amazing in the holy-shit-how-did-one-man-do-that kind of way.

http://www.chbeck.de/Stotz-Handbuch-Altertumswissenschaft-Band-II51-II55-Handbuch-lateinischen-Sprache-Mittelalters-Gesamtwerk-5-Baenden/productview.aspx?product=20489

u/chrysias ยท 2 pointsr/latin

I highly recommend trying to fit in upper level Latin classes if you can. Otherwise, what I've done so far in university: Cicero (if you'd like some easier prose), Medieval Latin (a wide variety of stuff, can be tough but we had a great textbook), Roman Elegy (entirely Ovid, though we read some other elegy in translation), and now Satire (Horace, Persius, Seneca).

If you want raw texts, The Latin Library is a favorite of mine! If you have another university near you that offers Classics courses, you might be able to check out their textbook/reader offerings as well for some good texts. If you want to keep studying consistently, you'll certainly have to push yourself to keep whatever pace you're aiming for, whether its 15 lines a night or 40 lines every other night, etc.

Good luck!