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Title: Magna Carta Latina: The Privilege of Singing, Articulating, and Reading a Language and of Keeping It Alive (Pittsburgh Reprint Series ; No. 1) by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugene Rosenstock, Ford Lewis Battles ISBN: 0-915138-07-7 Publisher: Pickwick Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1975 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95

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Summary: Magna Carta Latina
Comment: This unusual Latin grammar draws the reader to Latin using the language of Thomas Aquinas, the Magna Carta, and Abélard, rather than that of Caesar. The book begins with a chapter on sung Latin; it rejoices in the heritage of the language, while acquainting the student with Latin's major mature documents.
"Law and religion," Rosenstock-Huessy says, "medicine and science become clear to one who uses Latin. Two-thirds of our English vocabulary is Latin. The most precious documents of English constitutional history - including the Magna Charta, the basic document of Anglo-Saxon liberties - are in Latin. All Christian prayers were minted in the Latin language; secular rhyme and song came into the national languages from Latin sources."
"Magna Carta Latina" can also be ordered from Argo Books (www.argobooks.org), as can all the rest of Rosenstock-Huessy's English language works, including many of the lectures he gave on these topics. The lectures alone comprise more than 5000 pages of spontaneous comments he made to students from 1949 to 1968.