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Transjurania
The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy was a Francia, Frankish dominion established in 888 by the Elder House of Welf, Welf king Rudolph I of Burgundy on the territory of former Middle Francia. It grew out of the Carolingian Empire, Carolingian margraviate of Transjurane Burgundy (''Transjurania'', ) southeast of ('beyond') the Jura Mountains together with the adjacent County of Burgundy (''Franche-Comté'') in the northwest. The adjective 'upper' refers to its location further up the Rhône river, as distinct from Lower Burgundy (Cisjurane Burgundy and Provence) and also from the Duchy of Burgundy west of the Saône river. Upper Burgundy was reunited with the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy in 933 to form the Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles, Kingdom of Burgundy, later (from the 12th century) known as Kingdom of Arles or Kingdom of Arles, ''Arelat''. History Transjurania originally was a duchy of the Carolingian Empire, covering the Swiss Plateau, Central Plateau from the Jura Mountains up to the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal Register (sociolinguistics), registers of Latin spoken from the Crisis of the Roman Republic, Late Roman Republic onward. Through time, Vulgar Latin would evolve into numerous Romance languages. Its Literary Latin, literary counterpart was a form of either Classical Latin or Late Latin, depending on the time period. Origin of the term During the Classical antiquity, Classical period, Roman authors referred to the informal, everyday variety of their own language as ''sermo plebeius'' or ''sermo vulgaris'', meaning "common speech". The modern usage of the term Vulgar Latin dates to the Renaissance, when Italians, Italian thinkers began to theorize that Italian language, their own language originated in a sort of "corrupted" Latin that they assumed formed an entity distinct from the literary Classical Latin, Classical variety, though opinions differed greatly on the nature of this "vulgar" dialect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
