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GCSE History · key term
The language of Church worship and much formal learning in medieval western Europe.
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Paper 2
Revise: MonasticismLatin connected worship and education. Church services used Latin, so pupils preparing for religious life needed to learn it. Grammar schools concentrated on Latin grammar: understanding how the language worked was a foundation for reading and further study.
Distinguish Latin, used for Church worship and scholarly study, from vernacular languages such as English and French.
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