tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post5102868879009580881..comments2024-03-28T22:56:16.016+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Christine MohrmannFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35356073595271876712020-07-19T16:41:09.192+01:002020-07-19T16:41:09.192+01:00I understand (but can't now cite a source) tha...I understand (but can't now cite a source) that the reason for the much earlier beginning of vernacular literature in the Germanic languages is that they are clearly NOT Latin. Our ancestors strode around proclaiming "Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum..." while Italian contemporaries muttered, "Merda!Parlo un latino maccheronico."<br />Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365402242052425654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60389947930953093852020-07-19T16:34:18.314+01:002020-07-19T16:34:18.314+01:00I understand (but can't now cite a source) tha...I understand (but can't now cite a source) that the reason for the much earlier beginning of vernacular literature in the Germanic languages is that they are clearly NOT Latin. Our ancestors strode around proclaiming "Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum..." while Italian contemporaries muttered, "Merda!Parlo un latino maccheronico."<br />Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16365402242052425654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40110632613434596532020-07-16T15:05:49.793+01:002020-07-16T15:05:49.793+01:00Am I right that the rite of placing hands between ...Am I right that the rite of placing hands between the Vice-Chancellor's hands on admission to a degree as practised at Cambridge is related to the ceremonies for admission to a mediaeval guild ? Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2702885024094604602020-07-14T10:07:11.751+01:002020-07-14T10:07:11.751+01:00Mike: You are confusing the 'renewal' at t...Mike: You are confusing the 'renewal' at the Chrism Mass with the oath at Ordination. It is the latter which is made between the bishop's hands.Fr John Hunwickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66530899017070004832020-07-13T19:17:42.863+01:002020-07-13T19:17:42.863+01:00Fr,
may I ask you for the history of the priestly ...Fr,<br />may I ask you for the history of the priestly vows taken on Maundy Thursday. I had an embarrassing moment when I had a very good priest who was my confessor weekly for 3 years tell me in tears of the problems he had each chrism mass placing his hands in the bishop's and promising an implicit obedience to him and not to a defense of the Church against modernityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76701568738376900252020-07-13T15:26:58.522+01:002020-07-13T15:26:58.522+01:00Here is my contribution to an otherwise scholarly ...Here is my contribution to an otherwise scholarly conversation: I know French, but all the Latin I know comes from reading the Le Barroux bilingual Psautier Monastique. It has always puzzled me that many or most of the psalms are quite easy to understand, but my attempt at Virgil failed utterly and absolutely on page one. You have gone some way towards explaining why this should be.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01824005176362146901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19094672106670023262020-07-13T12:24:29.940+01:002020-07-13T12:24:29.940+01:00The book you mention can also be downloaded in var...The book you mention can also be downloaded in various formats free of charge at the Internet Archive. Here is the link: <a href="https://archive.org/details/LiturgicalLatin" rel="nofollow">Liturgical Latin Its Origins and Character</a>.FatherTFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451700981977182260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-75017905833885022822020-07-13T11:16:12.631+01:002020-07-13T11:16:12.631+01:00Interesting. I studied the evolution of Latin to ...Interesting. I studied the evolution of Latin to Modern French in the late 1950s which explains why I had not heard of Mohrmann if she only published in 1957. The theory that I was taught was that Latin was slowly evolving from a morphological language (depending on word endings) to a syntactical language depending on word order. The result was that Late Latin was much easier to read and writeNicolas Bellordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08063019108964247676noreply@blogger.com