medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

Paul Chandler wrote:

If it's being claimed that the text of the Voynich manuscript was *first* written -- and not simply copied -- in 1444, Dante, for example, will be surprised at such a late date for the origin of the Romance languages.

Not to mention Charlemagne...

(The Romance languages were late, of course - we (or some of us, anyway) had been speaking English for at least 200 years, and had to learn Latin as a Foreign Language...)

John Briggs

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