Vernacular Languages (jan 31, 476 – jan 1, 1167)
Description:
The common speech of the masses. They were the alternative to Latin, the language of the learned. The late Middle Ages saw the rise of vernacular literature, though Latin remained the universal tongue of scholarship, politics, and the Church in Western Europe until after the Middle Ages and the Reformation.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 31, 476
jan 1, 1167
~ 691 years