Medieval Wales as a Linguistic Crossroads in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153
Lars Nooij|Peter Schrijver
The manuscript known as Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153 contains a copy of Martianus Capella’s Latin text De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae. Written in Wales around 900 CE, it includes marginal annotations and Old Welsh that open window on the spread Carolingian educational culture to Celtic-speaking Britain. Evidence is examined here for close interaction between some indigenous languages island learned schools, even surviving traces variety spoken had been current Britain under Empire.
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