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Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Ii.. 294.—Constructifin of the Tower ofBuhel, in the Valley of Scnaar, hythe Descendants of Noah.—Miniaturefrom a Manuscript of the FiiteenlhCentun,.—Kational I.iljrary, Palis. probably taken effect by the time that the Franks, after their repeated 3+8 LANGUAGES. invasions of Gaul, had at length, established themselves in the territory whichthey had conquered. The men of letters, the ecclesiastics, and the patriciansstill spoke Latin, but of a very mongrel and sometimes unintelligible kind.Only those who had studied in the academies of Lyons, Yienne, Narbonae,and Aquitaine were familiar with the principles of the language, and wereable to write it without making any gross faults of grammar (Fig. 296j.
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