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