Christianity and Language in the Middle Ages
Neil Adkin
Early Christianity entertained an ambivalent attitude to the classicizingly ‘correct’ language inculcated by pagan educational system, which finally collapsed in wake of Germanic invasions. Such education as continued be available became henceforth preserve Church. However, old classical norms were resurrected a modified form Anglo-Irish ecclesiastics, who engineered Carolingian Renaissance. These linguistic standards then transmitted great monastic and cathedral schools that dominated throughout High Middle Ages. superseded only return obsessive classicism during
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