![]() For Robert the appropriate language for lay education was French, but by the late fourteenth century his book had been translated into English.ĭetail from Robert of Gretham, Mirur, in Anglo-Norman (WLC/LM/4, f.57v) It was still dominant in the mid-thirteenth century when Robert of Gretham wrote his advice on moral conduct, the Mirur. ![]() Hebrew and Aramaic were used by the medieval Jewish community in England.Īnglo-Norman had emerged as a distinct dialect of French after the Norman Conquest in 1066 established a French-speaking aristocracy in English. Eventually English emerged as the standard literary medium, but it was not until the eighteenth century that Latin disappeared from legal documents. Authors made choices about which one to use, and often used more than one language in the same document. ![]() Three main languages were in use in England in the later medieval period – Middle English, Anglo-Norman (or French) and Latin.
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