Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written...
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including the development in Medieval Latin of lower-case, forms which did not exist in the Classical period alphabet. The Latin alphabet evolved from the...
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modern Romance languages. In Latin's usage beyond the early medieval period, it lacked native speakers. Medieval Latin was used across Western and Catholic...
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of Latin was used between the eras of Classical Latin and Medieval Latin. Scholars do not agree exactly when Classical Latin should end or Medieval Latin...
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spreading to French and other languages in the nineteenth century. Medieval Latin had diverged quite substantially from the classical standard and saw...
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the distinctive Latin style developed by the humanist movement. Neo-Latin, or New Latin, is applied to Latin written after the medieval period according...
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of the Renaissance humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had...
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and never made it to being recited without song or other music. In medieval Latin, while verse in the old quantitative meters continued to be written...
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Europe, medieval literature was written in Ethiopic, Syriac, Coptic, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic, among many other languages. In Western Europe, Latin was...
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Gymnasium. Latin schools were also established in Colonial America. Emphasis was placed on learning Latin, initially in its Medieval Latin form. Grammar...
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