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# Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook for Beginners with Illustrations: A Handbook for Beginners, New Edition with Illustrations (Cultural Legacies)

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- **What is this?** Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook for Beginners with Illustrations: A Handbook for Beginners, New Edition with Illustrations (Cultural Legacies)
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This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches and elsewhere, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced the text of 52 church memorials in Latin, and this edition is illustrated with photographs of eight of the epitaphs, providing explanatory captions that help contextualize each inscription. With an introduction that discusses the conventions of lettering, abbreviations, Latinized personal names, and stock phrases found on these memorial stones, 'Reading Latin Epitaphs' is not only a volume for ecclesiastical scholars or historians, but an excellent tool for travelers and architecture enthusiasts as well. Giving readers all the tools they need to decipher these texts, Parker has included a very brief Latin grammar that lays out the basics of the language in a clear and concise fashion, and notes on Roman numerals and dates. A glossary of all the words found in the included epitaphs, as well as additional words often found in inscriptions, rounds out this indispensible guide.

Review: Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook - Exactly what I needed, to refresh schoolboy Latin for a new task.
Review: Rewards hard work - Not really a beginners' book, as you need a fair bit of understanding of grammar in general, and especially of Latinate or even other inflected languages to work through it well - I have O-level Latin, & A-level Franch, with a smattering of Italian, but it did require a fair bit of mind-stretching. If you're prepared to do that (& I am as someone interested in the subject because of its connection with Heraldry, my particular anorak), it's fine. The price was good, as also delivery condition and time.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 517,827 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 361 in Translation & Interpretation Reference 4,874 in Religious History of Christianity 13,195 in Specialty Travel |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 11 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reading Latin Epitaphs: A Handbook
*by R***R on 15 November 2017*

Exactly what I needed, to refresh schoolboy Latin for a new task.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rewards hard work
*by V***R on 29 August 2013*

Not really a beginners' book, as you need a fair bit of understanding of grammar in general, and especially of Latinate or even other inflected languages to work through it well - I have O-level Latin, & A-level Franch, with a smattering of Italian, but it did require a fair bit of mind-stretching. If you're prepared to do that (& I am as someone interested in the subject because of its connection with Heraldry, my particular anorak), it's fine. The price was good, as also delivery condition and time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Handy
*by D***E on 2 December 2015*

Handy slim volume to take around with you.

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