Latin Middle Ages

Q I

What, if any, are the differences between the Latin words femina, mulier, and uxor?
https://www.quora.com/What-if-any-are-the-differences-between-the-Latin-words-femina-mulier-and-uxor/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

September 11

none/ apprx Masters from Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University

Femina and mulier are both “woman”, uxor is “wife”.

Q II

Do we know how much Latin the average medieval commoner understood?
https://www.quora.com/Do-we-know-how-much-Latin-the-average-medieval-commoner-understood/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

Thu

none/ apprx Masters from Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University

We know very well, that this changed very radically in Tours between 800 and 813, as Alcuin changed the pronunciation of ecclesiastic Latin.

Old pronunciation, commoner understood, since “Latin” = high version of his own language.

New pronunciation, commoner understood not, since “Latin” (Alcuin’s version, old in York where he was from, new in Tours) was a foreign language.

He arrived in 800, and in 813 the same diocese (and suffragan dioceses) decided sermon needed to be added for basic translation in the vernacular of the audience, whether it was teutonic (as had already been the case, in Tours presumably with some High Ranking Franks) or Rustic Roman Language.

Q III

How do you memorize Latin endings?
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-memorize-Latin-endings/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

Thu

none/ apprx Masters from Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University

Look at the lists and read them out loud, column by column, being careful to note at which case you have, for instance, the -ae (Genitive and Dative in Sg, Nominative WITH Vocative in Pl).

Same as for any other language with lists of endings longer than just two.

Q IV

How do you make a medieval knight costume?
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-make-a-medieval-knight-costume/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

32m ago

What kind of “knight costume”?

Knight at court or knight in armour for battle?

Either way, it would depend on period and country.

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