Renaissance Latin

As a humanist Latin are referred to the kind of Latin in Renaissance humanism from the late 14th to the 16th century.

Language changes from the Latin of the Middle Ages

"Ad fontes " (Latin for " [back ] to the dawn " ) was the general call of the humanists, with which they sought to purify the Latin from the vocabulary of the Middle Ages and of the stylistic overload, which in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire had occurred. The so-called Golden Age of Latin literature was identified as a role model and pioneer of Latin style. In poetry, especially Virgil was the model, in prose translated vocabulary and syntax of Cicero the norm. In poetry, which are based on the word accent meters, which were very popular in the Middle Latin were ( see, eg, Carmina Burana ), now frowned upon. What these standards are not met, was branded as " gothic " or as a kitchen Latin. The purist movement took on doctrinal trains, 1528 Erasmus of Rotterdam turned against himself in his Dialogus Ciceronianus.

The humanists also tried to purify the written Latin in his spelling of the medieval influences. During the middle ages the spellings of "ae " and "e" wildly went ( "Marie" next to " Mary " ), they insisted on the correct letters after the model of the classical period. The same applies to the re-introduced distinction between ti vowel and ci vowel (excluding " etiam ", abandoning false " eciam "). In the Middle Ages these spellings were not distinguished because the pronunciation as a result of palatalization in both cases "z" was ( homophony ).

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