Talk:Clement of Llanthony

Vnum
is not a word in any language. It's misapplied archaic typography. We don't do our quotes with long ses and we don't write capital Vs for Us in Latin ever. Any policy leading you to do so should be ignored or applied more correctly. (If you want to do something like writing to reflect the nonuse of miniscules, that might be appropriate in some contexts, but we're not going to write  as a single word just because the Romans did. —  Llywelyn II   04:47, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

Side note: It's absolutely correct to provide redirects from such (now) misspellings but we still don't use them in the running texts, let alone as the first or proper format of the name. — Llywelyn II   04:49, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Take up your argument with Richard Sharpe (historian) and Brepols - since it's in Richard Sharpe's Handlist of Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland Before 1540 published by Brepols, which is part of their "Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin". I'll note that they are not only using "vnum" but also "vbi fuit mons est uallis" (p. 736, a work by Walter of Hyde) or "Serni et uersus in honorem S. Annae" (p. 409, a work by Osbert of Clare). Since both Brepols and Journal of Medieval Latin are very reliable sources, I see no reason to not use them. Handlist is pretty much the go-to for information on Latin works or Latin writers for this time period and place. Unless you think the Journal of Medieval Latin is not reliable? It may not be the typography we learned, but it's obviously in use now. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:29, 31 October 2015 (UTC)