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Marius Peregrine wrote:[color=darkblue]A comment got made in Comitia (in response to my proposed use of a Medieval-Latin praenomen) that "...many Medieval or Renaissance latinisations of names are atrocious." Perhaps I have been looking at different texts and different names, for I have not found them so; although, I suppose, there are horror stories everywhere, they don't seem to be the going thing.
Q. Vaemarianus Scerius wrote:IIRC, the 4th declension dropped into 2nd declension, pronouns became more abundant, and order became butchered.
Quintus Marius Primus wrote:I've been reading about the Battle of Hastings recently and therefore have been looking at the Bayeux Tapestry and noticed that the Latin in use on the Tapestry differed slightly to Classical Latin, and got me thinking about how Mediaeval Latin did differ from the language of Cicero.
The really difficult thing to realise about Mediaeval Latin is that it went through a series of reforms that attempted to return it to Virgilian practice.
I know this was the case for instance in Spain about 1200.
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