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Medieval Latin

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Medieval Latin
the Latin language as used throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. It had many local forms incorporating Latinized words from other languages


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The medieval Latin word for metaphor is translatio, and that is what the best fantasy is: a translation, in accessible language and story, of difficult notions.
My own journey began as I was searching for a doctorate thesis under the guidance of the professor of Medieval Latin Studies at University College, Dublin, the Viennese Ludwig Bieler who wrote one of the first books on the Divine Man theory of Jesus.
He explains how the Christian intolerance was codified into canon law, although in spite of this official hostility, Crompton holds that homosexual themes were widespread in medieval Latin literature of the 10th and 11th centuries as was homosexuality itself.
 
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