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Anonymous Valesianus
''Anonymus Valesianus'' (or ''Excerpta Valesiana'') is the conventional title of a compilation of two fragmentary vulgar Latin chronicles, named for its modern editor, Henri Valois, Henricus Valesius, who published the texts for the first time in 1636, together with his first printed edition of the ''Res Gestae'' of Ammianus Marcellinus. The two fragments are not related, one being from the fourth century and the other from the sixth. The only connection between the two fragments is their presence in the same manuscript and their history of being edited together.Brian Croke, "Latin Historiography and the Barbarian Kingdoms", in G. Marasco (ed.), ''Greek and Roman Historiography in Late Antiquity: Fourth to Sixth Century A.D.'' (Brill, 2003), pp. 352–358. When Henricus' brother re-edited the ''Anonymus'' in an edition of Ammianus Marcellinus in 1681, it was the first time that the two excerpts were clearly separated. The work of the Anonymus Valesianus is a debated issue of histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Colloquial, Popular, Spoken or Vernacular Latin, is the range of non-formal Register (sociolinguistics), registers of Latin spoken from the Crisis of the Roman Republic, Late Roman Republic onward. ''Vulgar Latin'' as a term is both controversial and imprecise. Spoken Latin existed for a long time and in many places. Scholars have differed in opinion as to the extent of the differences, and whether Vulgar Latin was in some sense a different language. This was developed as a theory in the nineteenth century by François Just Marie Raynouard, Raynouard. At its extreme, the theory suggested that the written register formed an elite language distinct from common speech, but this is now rejected. The current consensus is that the written and spoken languages formed a continuity much as they do in modern languages, with speech tending to evolve faster than the written language, and the written, formalised language exerting pressure back on speech. ''Vulgar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
