Medieval Latin
The form of Latin used in Europe during the Middle Ages (roughly from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance), which served as the language of scholarship, religion, law, and literature. In these claims it refers specifically to the body of medieval Latin-language historical, polemical, and legal writings about Islam and Muslims.
Claims that use this term
- Medieval Latin histories of Muhammad blended reliable chronology with fabulous interpolations
- Medieval Latin writers framed the Crusade as Christian defence against Islamic aggression
- Medieval Latin texts gave Muhammad a death by pigs as theologically fitting punishment.
- Medieval Latin polemicists condemned Islamic law as merely legalized lust
- Medieval Latin legal terms for Muslims mixed religious and ethnic categories.