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Changing Linguistic Attitudes in the Merovingian Period

Pages 131-134 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

  • Slijper, E., De Formularum Andecavensium Latinitate Disputalio, Amsterdam, 1906, p. 25.
  • 'Vielliard, Jeanne, La langue des diplômes royaux et chartes privées de l‘époque mérovingienne, Paris, 1927, p. VII: “Ceux qui écrivaient alors avaient la prétention d'employer le latin de Cicéron et d‘éviter les vulgarismes de la langue parlée.”
  • Sas, Louis Furman, The Noun Declension System in Merovingian Latin, Paris, 1937, pp. 6–9; cf. Index.
  • A few outspoken critics of pagan literature were Paulin of Noles, Sulpicius-Severus, Ambrose, Salvian and Prudentius.
  • Roger, M. L'enseignement des lettres classiques d'Ausone à Alcuin, Paris, 1905, p. 133.
  • Dill, Sir Samuel, Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age, London, 1926, pp. 98, 101.
  • Quoted by Prou, p. 222. See Prou, M., La Gaule Mérovingienne, Paris, 1898.
  • Cf. Jerome, ad Ezech. 40: semel monuisse sufficiat, nosse me, cubitum et cubita neutro appellari genere sed pro simplicitate et facultate intellegentiae vulgique consuetudine sonere masculino.
  • Passages like the following from Fortunatus may be omitted as rhetorical: 89,4 rusticus calamus; 51 pigra… lingua, etc. in view of the actual style of his writing. The passages from the Lives of the Saints are not in this category.
  • Quoted from Preface of St. Martin by H. F. Muller, A Chronology of Vulgar Latin, p. 35.
  • Roger, op. cit. p. 127.
  • This presupposes a difference between oral and written levels such as obtains in all languages. Modern literary French with its past definites, etc. is still French despite the absence of past definites, etc. in the spoken language.

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