Latin and Coptic: Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact

• Other Authors: Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara (Editor), Pezzella, Alessia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Napoli FedOA - Federico II University Press 2022
• Series: Testi. Antichità, Medioevo e Umanesimo 5
• Subjects: Classical texts; latin, coptic, late antique and Byzantine Egypt
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This volume is the first work devoted to the contacts between Latin and Coptic in late antique and Byzantine Egypt. It follows in the footsteps of a renewed interest in this multilingual and multicultural area, but it approaches an untapped theme aiming to show that it can profitably be explored. Th...