The Freising Manuscripts: The Oldest Slavic Latin Texts
Dating back to roughly 1000 AD, the Freising Manuscripts (BriΕΎinski spomeniki) hold the title of the oldest surviving texts in any Slavic language written in the Latin script. This article…
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Macaronic Verse: Medieval Bilingual Humor
Long before Spanglish or modern code-switching, medieval monks and rebellious scholars created "Macaronic Verse"βa comedy genre that mixed high-status Latin grammar with "vulgar" vernacular roots. This article explores the linguistic…
The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit
In the annals of history, there are tales so strange that they seem more like fiction than fact. One such story is the curious case...