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Among the most influential grammatical texts in the medieval European world were the works of Aelius Donatus (ca. 350 AD). His Ars minor, a short treatise on the parts of speech written in question-and-answer form, remained the standard Latin primer throughout the Middle Ages.
Oct 22, 2024 · During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes. Until the latter part of the 20th century its use was required in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church.
- The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and un...
- A “dead” language is one no longer learned as a first language or used in ordinary communication. Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgi...
- Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms...
It was the dominant language of European learning, literature and academia through the middle ages, and in the early modern period. Latin's relevance as a widely used working language ended around 1800, although examples of its productive use extend well into that century, and in the cases of the Catholic Church and Classical studies, continue ...
Apr 9, 2019 · As Latin had long been the language of learning and textual authority, the choice of French prose for writing history suggests that lay aristocratic audiences were increasingly engaged in understanding the past.
Mar 5, 2015 · Linguistic thought in the Middle Ages. With this chapter we enter the western Middle Ages properly speaking – the millennium between Priscian and the Northern Renaissance, roughly 500 to 1500.
- Vivien Law
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Jan 1, 1995 · This chapter reviews the linguistic work done during later middle ages. The period 1150–1400 is regarded as one of the golden periods in the history of linguistics, a period when the study of language increased considerably, as a result not only of the general increase in learning and literacy, but of the incorporation of the Aristotelian ...
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This chapter approaches the question of writing from the perspective of spoken language. It asks: what languages did people speak in the early Middle Ages? And how readily could they understand one another? Why and how did the linguistic map of Europe change during these centuries?
