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Languages in contact --- Historical linguistics --- History --- Mediterranean Region --- Languages --- Areal linguistics --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Languages. --- Languages in contact - Mediterranean Region - History --- Historical linguistics - Mediterranean Region --- Langues anciennes --- Mediterranean Region - Languages --- Langues en contact --- Diffusion des langues --- Latin (langue) --- Grec (langue) --- Linguistique historique --- Langues --- Influence sur les autres langues.

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The linguistic situation of medieval Europe has sometimes been characterized as one of diglossia: one learned language, Latin, was used for religion, law, and documents, while the various vernaculars were used in other linguistic registers. Informing the relationship between Latin and the vernaculars was the choice of Latin as the language of the Western Roman Empire and the Roman Church. This choice entailed the possibility of a shared literary culture and heritage across Europe, but also had consequences for access to that heritage. Scholarship on the Romance languages has contested the relevance of the term diglossia, and the divergence between written or spoken Latin and Romance is a subject of energetic debate. In other linguistic areas, too, questions have been voiced. How can one characterize the interaction between Latin and the various vernaculars, and between the various vernaculars themselves? To what extent could speakers from separate linguistic worlds communicate? These questions are fundamental for anyone concerned with communication, the transmission of learning, literary history, and cultural interaction in the Middle Ages. This volume contains contributions by historians, cultural historians, and students of texts, language, and linguistics, addressing the subject from their various perspectives but at the same time trying to overcome familiar disciplinary divisions.

Classical Latin language --- Sociolinguistics --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Oral communication --- Written communication --- Latin language, Medieval and modern --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Civilization, Medieval --- Communication orale --- Communication écrite --- Latin médiéval et moderne (Langue) --- Langues en contact --- Multilinguisme --- Sociolinguistique --- Civilisation médiévale --- History --- Congresses --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Aspect social --- Communication écrite --- Latin médiéval et moderne (Langue) --- Civilisation médiévale --- Congrès --- To 1500 --- Latin language [Medieval and modern ] --- Oral communication - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Written communication - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Latin language, Medieval and modern - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Languages in contact - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Multilingualism - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication