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Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature flourished for the next six centuries. The classical era of Latin literature can be roughly divided ...
Vulgar Latin, or Common Latin, is one of the two types of Latin, an old language that was spoken by the Romans. Vulgar Latin is not spoken anymore, but its many dialects eventually became what are now Romance languages (such as Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Romanian ). Vulgar Latin was spoken by the regular people ( vulgus in Latin ...
Renaissance Latin is a name given to the distinctive form of Literary Latin style developed during the European Renaissance of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, particularly by the Renaissance humanism movement. This style of Latin is regarded as the first phase of the standardised and grammatically "Classical" Neo-Latin which continued ...
Europe, 1000 AD. Medieval Latin was the form of Latin that was used in the Middle Ages. It was used mostly by scholars and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but it was used also as a language of science, literature and administration. Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors, Medieval Latin should not ...
Aug 1, 2019 · Vulgar Latin was a simpler form of literary Latin. It dropped terminal letters and syllables (or they metathesized). It decreased the use of inflections since prepositions (ad (> à) and de) came to serve in place of case endings on nouns. Colorful or slang (what we think of as 'vulgar') terms replaced traditional ones— testa meaning 'jar ...
The Vulgate ( / ˈvʌlɡeɪt, - ɡət /; also called Biblia Vulgata (Bible in common tongue), Latin: [ˈbɪbli.a wʊlˈɡaːta] ), sometimes referred to as the Latin Vulgate, is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible . The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus ...
Dec 24, 2023 · Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd to the 9th century, followed by Medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin. During this time, Latin was used as the language of international communication and scholarship until well into the 18th century, when it was supplanted by vernaculars. Later forms of Latin are termed Early Modern and Modern.
