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A Critical Juncture: “Later” Latin Literature, the Newest Late Antiquity, and the Period of the Western Classic

Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2022
With the appearance in 2020 of a long-awaited second “late antique” instalment of the Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1989– ) and a new, collaborative Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature now at an advanced stage
Mark Vessey
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Morphosyntactic realignment and markedness change in Late Latin: Evidence from charter texts

Pallas, 2016
This paper discusses how the Latin accusative became the unmarked default case and how this markedness turn is related to the morphosyntactic realignment of the grammatical relations in Late Latin.
Timo Korkiakangas
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Sky-Maiden and World Mythology

Iris, 2021
Traditions that share the least number of motifs are located in continental Eurasia and Melanesia. African mythologies are poor and stand nearer to the Indo‑Pacific than to the Continental Eurasian pole.
Yuri Berezkin
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The Language of Latin Curse Tablets from Pannonia: A New Curse Tablet from Aquincum. [PDF]

, 2009
Summary: A lead tablet recently discovered in the eastern cemetery of the Aquincum civil town is of much interest. The tablet which can be dated on archaeological grounds to the late 2nd–early 3rd centuries AD seems to be a binding curse of a group of ...
Barta, Andrea
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The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Slavic Vernaculars [PDF]

, 2014
The Bohemian Redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi is a hybrid form of the apocryphon, combining elements of Latin traditions A and B. It circulated in central and eastern Europe, and was used as a source for late medieval translations into Byelorussian,
Izydorczyk, Zbigniew
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Definiteness strategies and word order in existential-locatives and locatives in Late and Vulgar Latin

Linguistica, 2007
§ 1.The parameters which began to undergo a profound change in Late Latin include the marking  of definiteness  and the gradual fixation of a different word  order.1  These two phenomena  are brought  into connection by M.. Durante's observation  (1981,
Concepción Cabrillana
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A Sixth-century Story in a Nineth-century Tract? Torna, torna, frater Revisited

Studia Ceranea
This article focuses on the Latin words torna and frater. According to the accounts of Theophylact Simocatta and Theophanes the Confessor, the words were used by soldiers participating in the Byzantine-Avar war campaign in the Haemus mountains in 587 ...
Elisabeta Negrău
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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular: Petrarch at Sea

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 2015
Casual readers and scholars alike celebrate Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (RVF) as an early masterpiece of vernacular lyric. Yet Petrarch directed most of his professional energies as writer to Latin composition, in the belief that Latin was the ...
Karla Mallette
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Il lemma abaso nella glossografia latina: ricostruzione di un percorso

Open Journal of Humanities
The paper deals with the origin of a not already explained latin noun, abaso, which is found in many glossographic works since the late Antiquity. It is suggested that the form abaso has its roots in a lost Latin gloss to the Bible, dealing with abyssus,
Edoardo Scarpanti
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Perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase et ordre linéaire dans les textes latins tardifs [PDF]

Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2012
Syntax has a double aspect : the structures manifesting the logico-semantic relationships within the sentence and the means expressing its communicative perspective limit each other mutually.
Sándor Kiss
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