Word: christendom
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...Norman-French. That our philosophical and metaphysical terms should be Latin and Greek is perfectly natural, when we consider that Latin continued to be the language of philosophy to the time of Bacon, and that Aristotle and his commentators were for many centuries the chief intellectual food of Christendom. At the time when our literature had its first great development, all the books which scholars read were Latin books, and it was inevitable that they should show in their language the effect of the medium through which all their thinking passed. You will find that Charles Lamb, whose reading...