Why Latin

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Why Latin?

• How come you must learn Latin 1500 years after
  the fall of the Roman empire?

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Hvorfor latin?

• Den historiske årsag.

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The Roman Empire and Christianity

• Gajus Julius Caesar Octavianus 63 BC -14 AD
• And it came to pass in those days that there went
  out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the
  world should be ?.

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The spread of Christianity

• The Apostle Peter

• The Apostle Paulus

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Romes fire 64 AD and the first persecutions of
Christians

• Nero 37-68 AD

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Constantine the Great 272-337 AD

• 306 AD emperor
• First Christian Emperor?
• 316 Milano edict
• Christianity permitted within the Roman empire
• Moved capital to Constantinople

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Theodosius 346-393 e.kr

• 380 AD
• Christianity the only religion permitted
• 391Destruction of heathen temples like the Vesta
  temple
• 393 The Olympic games forbidden
• On death of Theodosius empire split in two

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Fall of the Roman Empire 476A

• Last west-Roman emperor Romulus Augustus deposed
  by Odoacer, Germanic emperor
• Only the East Roman empire continues(until1453)

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Charlemagne 742-814

• Frankish king
• 800 Roman emperor
• Carolingian renaissance
• Cultural revival
• Latin language of administration in the Frankish
  empire
• His son Ludvig the pius sends Ansgar to Denmark.
  Founds a church in Ribe

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Latin schools (monastic and cathedral schools)

• 597 The Kings School Canterbury
• 1100 Viborg Cathedral School
• 1145 Ribe Cathedralschoole
• 1209 Metropolitanskolen
• 1308 Odense Cathedralschool

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The instruction

• Trivium
• Grammar
• Rhetoric
• Dialectic

• Quadrivium
• Aritmetic
• Geometry
• Music
• Astronomy

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Reformation 1536 (Denmark)

• All schools in Denmark became state schools. The
  language of instruction, however, was still
  latin

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University of Copenhagen

• 1479 founded
• 1841 Søren Kierkegård granted dispensation to
  write (part of ) thesis in Danish