Did you know that the tune for the Victorian-era Christmas song "Good King Wenceslas" is from a much older song, from the Age of Faith (c. 1300s)? And did you know that the words to that original song are all about Spring?
Tempus Adest Flóridum
Latin Reading: About that Notorious Abelard
DE MAGISTRO QUI LEGIT IN AERE ET IN AQUA I just found this passage the other day in Charles H. Beeson’s A Primer of Medieval Latin, p.47-48 (in the Public Domain, c. 1925). Beeson excerpted it from the sermons of James of Vitry, cardinal bishop of Tusculum (died 1240). (It is just the kind of... Continue Reading →
PDF: TLM Sunday Gospels in Color
As promised on the post for the original project: I have now collected the last year's-worth of TLM Gospels that I had been coloring by case throughout the year, and have now arranged them, starting naturally with the Sundays of Advent, in chronological order--and turned them into a PDF! Note: This first version of this... Continue Reading →
TLM Gospel for Palm Sunday
There is so much going on grammatically here--to say nothing of the Salvation History, narrative drama, or theology of course!
Reading Practice I: Visiones Perpetuae
Great vintage book provides Ecclesiastical Latin excerpts and illuminating footnotes, and I am adding case colors to further aid comprehension. This will be great!
Medieval Latin Reading Practice: 3 Books
If you've had about two years of Latin, either with a Classical focus or of course especially with an Ecclesiastical Latin focus, you will enjoy working your way through these actual, genuine Medieval texts in Latin linked below. Hugh of Fouilloy's 'Aviarum/De Avibus' The Medieval Book of Birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's 'Aviarum' Edition, Translation, and... Continue Reading →
TLM Sunday Gospels, Color-Coded
All those busy Latin nouns out there, doing their jobs, using their endings, are often hard to keep track of all at once. To help show the various jobs nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are doing in each phrase, clause, and sentence, I assign a color to each case to visually reinforce what the specific case endings are telling us.
Silly Latin Stories–(Use with LNM)
I recently wrote these stories for the students in my Latin I class. They should be enjoyed after a student has worked through the lessons marked.
VTF: Mediaeval Latin, K.P. Harrington
It's another anthology that should be very useful to Church Latinists. The short introduction is excellent: a helpful summary of Church Latin's history, vocabulary, forms, syntax, and metric. Each author has a paragraph or two of interesting introductory material, and lots of photographs and reproductions of art and artifacts are nicely tucked in throughout.
Oz, Pooh, Alice, Crusoe–in Latin!
When you have studied Latin for a year or two, it's time to read those old favorites in Latin!
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