Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages
Roger Wright
The languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan all evolved from the spoken Latin Roman Empire. By end Middle Ages written forms these were established speakers each language considered theirs to be a different Latin. When was this distinction drawn? And are modern scholars justified in applying between Romance early Ages? relationship languages, thousand years late Empire Dante, is topic central concern latinists, romanists, philologists, linguists, medieval historians textual critics. These areas represented collection papers an interdisciplinary conference held United States. All specialists their fields, contributors consider own distinct perspectives. editor introduces seventeen other authors, who come twelve countries. He argues that volume represents genuine advance and, though more questions raised than answers given, sense common interest partial consensus developed, pushing distinction's origins further towards 1000 year period generally supposed.
Modern Language Review