Latin in Medieval Britain

Latin continued to be used across Europe long after the end of the Roman Empire. While not the native language of its users, it was nevertheless used for a wide variety of functions from religion to record-keeping. This book considers various contexts in Britain to see how medieval people used Latin and how this affected the language.

List of contents

• 1: Richard Ashdowne and Carolinne White: Introduction


• Part I


• 2: David Howlett: The Start of the Anglo-Latin Tradition


• 3: Neil Wright: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance in Anglo-Norman England: William of Malmesbury and Joseph of Exeter


• 4: Wendy R. Childs: From Chronicles to Customs Accounts: The Uses of Latin in the Long Fourteenth Century


• 5: Robert Swanson: Elephans in Camera: Latin and Latinity in Fifteenth- and Early-Sixteenth-Century England


• Part II


• 6: Paul Brand: The Latin of the Early English Common Law


• 7: Leofranc Holford-Strevens: English Music Theory in Medieval Latin


• 8: Carolinne White: Latin in Ecclesiastical Contexts


• 9: Charles Burnett: The Introduction of Arabic Words in Medieval British Latin Scientific Writings


• Part III


• 10: Paul Russell: 'Go and Look in the Latin Books': Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Wales


• 11: Richard Sharpe: Official and Unofficial Latin Words in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England


• 12: Laura Wright: On Non-integrated Vocabulary in the Mixed-language Accounts of St Paul's Cathedral, 13151405


• 13: and#8224David Trotter: Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin, and Words of Germanic Origin


• 14: Philip Durkin and Samantha Schad: The DMLBS and the OED: Medieval Latin and the Lexicon of English


• 15: David Howlett: Making the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources

About the author

Richard Ashdowne is at University College, Oxford.

Carolinne White is an independent scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Richard (University College Ashdowne
• Assisted by: Richard Ashdowne (Editor), Carolinne White (Editor), White Carolinne (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2017
• EAN: 9780197266083
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726608-3
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Latin, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Medieval History, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Language: history & general works, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Language: history and general works