User:Darcius Carvalius

Medieval Latin was not a new kind of Latin, it was just Latin used for general communication in Europe, from 500 until 1500, that is, from the fall of Rome to the Germans to the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. This thousand years historical period coincides with the growing Christianization of the Continent and, therefore, during the whole Middle Ages, the "Biblical Latin" of the Hieronymus Stridonensis' Vulgate was generally and obligatorily read and recited throughout. Its simplified syntax, coined on the literal translations of Semitic and Greek original texts, did not fail to influence the writers of this period of decreasing level of school learning of formal erudite Latin. From 1200 to 1800, Latin had its role as a general mean of communication again enhanced by the revival of learning, the discovery of new transmarine worlds, the Reformation, the scientific, the medical and technological revolutions.