medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Manu,
You wrote:
"Thus the fortuna of the early Bios appears to be
quick translation into Latin and subsequent translation from Latin
into western vernaculars at a much later date."
Er, "into other western vernaculars". In the 5th/6th cent. (standard
date for BHL 2723), Latin was still a western vernacular as well as also
being an eastern one in a belt of territory stretching from Illyricum
into Thrace (it was Justinian I's native tongue); in at least the 5th
cent. it will still have been hanging on in Pannonia as well. Greek was
always a vernacular language somewhere in Europe, and it was certainly a
western one in southern Italy from at least the 7th cent. onward (this
was where Grosseteste seems to have learned his Greek and where Petrarch
advised a young Italian-speaker to learn his).
Have a good time at the AHA!
Best,
John Dillon
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