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Dear Sandra
I can not find any evidence or > references for the decline in the command
of Latin among monastics > Yet, the fact that parish priests increasingly
turned to vernacular texts
> for the instruction of their flock does not necessarily mean that monks
and > nuns were no longer able to read their Latin books.
- you may also want to look at Alexandra Barratt's article, 'Small Latin?
The Post-Conquest Learning of English Religious Women' in _Anglo-Latin and
its Heritage_ ed. S. Echard & G. R. Wieland, Publications of the Journal of
Medieval Latin, 4 (Brepols, 2001), in which she argues against the received
opinion that there was little Latin literacy among nuns in the high middle
ages, concluding 'There does seem to have been a change in the knowledge
that women religious had of Latin, but this seems to have occurred well into
the thirteenth rather than the twelfth century. And a similar
investigartion of the later period might well show that knoweldge of Latin
was not completely extinct, even in the fourteenth century, among English
nuns.'
hope this is of use,
Cate Gunn
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