Shared Language: Vernacular Manuscripts of the Middle Ages Volume 7

by Laura Light and Laura Light

Most people today think of the Middle Ages as a time when cloistered monks wrote and read only in now-obscure languages. Of course, Latin was the language of those who aspired to literacy, and it was the language of the Church. But what many do not realize is that by the thirteenth and fourteenth century (and certainly well before Columbus discovered America in 1492), numerous books became available in the everyday languages spoken "at the court,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997184205
• ISBN13: 9780997184204
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 10.7"