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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 language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees.
- Numerous small states
- Most of Europe
Middle English uses certain special characters in its alphabet. These are: thorn equivalent to “th”, and printed Þ. eth also equivalent to “th”, and printed ð. yogh which can be transcribed “gh” or “y,” and is printed ȝ. You should be aware of these characters and understand how to transcribe them.
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The anonymous author of this text attempts to devise an alphabet appropriate to his native language, using Latin letters where possible but dropping them as necessary and adding a number of new vowel symbols to represent sounds in the vernacular.
Reading Medieval Latin is an introduction to medieval Latin in its cultural and historical context and is designed to serve the needs of students who have completed the learning of basic classical Latin morphology and syntax.
- Keith C. Sidwell
- 1995
The dearth of professional translators of Medieval Latin results partly from the fragile status of translating within our larger culture and especially within academic culture, but it also reflects the marginality of Medieval Latin literature.
The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS), the first fascicle of which appeared in 1975 and the 17th and last in 2013, is “the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin to have been produced and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin”.
Paolo Chiesa offers an account of the uneasy and sometimes belated passage of medieval Latin texts into the medium of print and their eventual transformed emergence in modern critical editions. Finally, Jan Ziolkowski considers the fortunes of Medieval Latin literature in Modern English translation.
