Teaching Late Latin: Past and Present, Challenges and Prospects.

Abstract

This Special Issue has two main foci: Late Latin and the teaching of Latin. However, starting from these, it soon dovetails: the section titled Ars docendi antiqua focuses on the specific challenges involving the teaching of Latin in the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; whereas the section titled Ars docendi nova focuses on challenges in the teaching of Late and Early Medieval Latin in a range of contemporary settings. What holds these two sections together, despite their chronological coverage being centuries apart, is the existence of a common set of “aims”, “problems” and “solutions”. On the other hand, by comparing and contrasting the two sections, specificities of each historical periods emerge