ANST - RE: Latin Pronunciation In Period & The SCA

[Mark.S Harris]

Jennifer Carlson (Dunstana Talana Viola) wrote:
> 
> Good day, Brother Galen, and any who are interested in this topic!
> 
> Here's my attempt to answer the good friar's good questions:

And a very good attempt I found it to be. Especially for those of us
not familar with Latin but wanting to know a little about how it was
in our period of study vs. in classical times.

However, I wanted to check something. You said:

> Classical Latin as the introductory form of the language is a legacy from
> the Renaissance.  Classical Latin was rediscovered during the Renaissance,
> and became the preferred form of study for the literary and scholarly
> elite.  The works of Cicero, in particular, are held up as the paragon of
> Classical form and grammar.  The concepts of "liberal arts education" and
> "classical education", also legacies of Renaissance humanism, are allegedly
> the precepts upon which modern education is based.  Hence, Classical Latin
> is taught first.  Most students do not progress far enough in their studies
> of the humanities to have a need for Medieval Latin - indeed, most students
> do not study Latin at all. 

And then you said:

> All of the beginning Latin textbooks I am aware
> of are geared towards Medieval Latin.  Perhaps someone else out there can
> suggest a text.

Did you mean to say "All of the beginning Latin textbooks I am aware of are
geared towards Classical Latin."?

For those interested in pursuing medieval languages and Latin a bit further,
you might be interested in these two files in the EDUCATION section of my
Florilegium:
languages-msg     (50K)  9/23/98    Sources for learning Anglo-Saxon, Latin.
Latin-msg         (23K)  4/ 8/97    Learning Latin. Some basics. WWW course.

The Florilegium is on the web at:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html

Dunstana, I plan to add your wonderful message to the Latin-msg file.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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