The Coming of the Vernacular
Patricia Ranft
In every example discussed so far the text focused on was written in Latin. Latin remained chief language of Western intellectual through Italian and northern renaissances (the sophistication one’s even becomes a criterion for judging credentials as an intellectual), but only with coming vernacular does West establish its own distinctive nature. The retrieval ancient classics during Carolingian Ottonian essential first step development tradition. second establishment culture. Even historian Charles Homer Haskins recognized this his classic, Renaissance Twelfth Century1 If societies had pursued Greek Roman cultures then they might have proven to be reinvention past. They chose otherwise; Colish says, use classical past, particularly Latin, “the medium which other writers gained access tradition not originally their own.” medieval Westerners decided simply repeat reverence past empower “vernacular languages literatures, enabling them become means by late audiences appropriated, Christian inheritance also earlier legacies, achieving cultural self-definition selection from re-expression these sources.”2 We shall proceed chapter Chapter 4 identify those women who contributed key aspect
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