Greg Lindahl wrote:
The Church was still a major political power using Latin, not to mention the Holy Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire -- and Latin itself evolved steadily.
While Latin was used in the Byzantine Empire, perhaps these lines from Will Durant's "The Age of Faith" indicate to what extent:
"After Justinian's death his additional legislation was published as Novellae (sc. constitutiones) - i.e., new enactments. Whereas the previous publications had been in Latin, this was in Greek, and marked the end of Latin as the language of the Law in the Byzantine Empire."
Interestingly, the new enactments still had a Latin name ... -- Toon Moene - e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands At home: http://moene.indiv.nluug.nl/~toon/ Progress of GNU Fortran: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-01/msg00009.html _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
