The article deals with bilingualism and multilingualism in the Romance
poetry of the Middle Ages. Firstly, the phenomenon could have resulted
from the individual multilingualism of a particular author. Secondly,
it used to come into existence in communities that combined two or more languages in everyday communication. Thirdly, multilingualism was related to the
activities of many prestigious literary schools and movements, as language was
considered to be an inherent character of a given movement. A classic example
of prestigious poetry producing a prestigious language is the poetry of the Occitan
troubadours, while on Iberian Peninsula there existed Galician-Portugal
courtesy poetry, too. Fourthly, a person who wrote poetry in a Romance language
was supposed to know at least some Latin too, therefore the Romance
culture in Europe is unthinkable without Latin-Romance bilingualism.
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