Latin Literature : A History (Rev. ed.)

This history of Latin literature offers a comprehenive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written langauge to the early Middle Ages.

It is intended as a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study and a reader's handbook.

From the first examples of written Latin through Gregory of Tours in the 6th century and the Venerable Bede in the 7th, the text offers a survey of all major Latin authors.

Including names, dates, edition citations and detailed summaries, the work seeks to combine the virtues of an encyclopaedia with critical study.