Rare Centuries-Old Notebook Discovered in Medieval Latrine
26d 2h ago by mander.xyz/u/nemeski in archaeology@mander.xyz from news.artnet.com
Archaeologists in central Germany have discovered an “exceptionally well-preserved” notebook in a Medieval latrine.
Interesting read! Shocking it was so well preserved and i had no idea wax was used as journal paper! Equally shocking was it being Latin, I think i misunderstood how recently used it was. Figured it was dead before the middle ages.
The Latin in question would probably make a Roman cry, but the language remained important as long as it was the common language of the Catholic Church and remained a shared language for scholars across Europe until the 18th Century or so. It was still a requirement to get into many Universities until the 20th.
While I've forgotten much of it, I have a Latin O-Level from my school days in England, because of the history of that requirement (and hating French).