ANST - RE: Latin Pronunciation In Period & The SCA
Mark.S Harris
rsve60 at email.sps.mot.com
Tue Mar 16 06:52:35 PST 1999
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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