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  Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Erich Auerbach
Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword (1993)
Preface
Introduction: Purpose and Method3
1Sermo Humilis25
Excursus: Gloria Passionis67
2Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages83
3Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime181
4The Western Public and Its Language235
Abbreviations341
List of Works Cited343
General Index373
Index of Latin Words389
Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach391
Biographical Note407

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