by Milito » Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:17 am
[quote author=Keesa link=board=3;threadid=562;start=0#5244 date=1062592472]<br />What are the main differences between Classical Latin and Medival Latin, other than vocabulary? Is there much grammatical difference? <br /><br />Keesa<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Well, actually, there isn't much vocabulary difference (thus far... and there better not be, since we haven't got a medieval Latin dictionary to work with!) The grammar is looser, apparently. Augustine, so far, isn't too bad, but for the occasional word that isn't in my dictionaries (effurbui, anyone? I think it's a first person singular past tense of something, but I can't figure out what....)<br /><br />And Episcopus, the King Arthur stories start showing up in medieval Latin, and there are Alexander the Great works, a history of the Goths, a history of France, various letters of Charlemagne, "Carmina Burana", a poem about a guy and his fiancee who happen to be hostages of Attila the Hun (that sounds good!), some love poems for Benissimus and some drinking songs, all in this textbook I get to start playing with, after I finish with Augustine....<br /><br />Kilmeny
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