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The languages of Spain

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Tema: Romance and non-Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula. Geographic location.

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España > Cultura Clásica > 2º ESO > Pervivencia de las lenguas clásicas. Lengua y léxico

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Observaciones y contexto

Ever since Empress Helena and Empress Eutropia, mother and wife of Emperor Constantine respectively, travelled to Jerusalem to recover and repair the Holy Places, pilgrimages were common for the wealthy classes, including women. Melania the Elder, Paula of Rome or Melania the Younger had biographers who described their travels, but the originality of Egeria lies in the fact that she was the one to write her own diary. Egeria herself writes the immense satisfaction she felt when meeting the deaconess Martana. 

After her, the medieval chronicles tell us about the pilgrimage to Compostela of numerous women. In the 12th century AD, Bona de Pisa made pilgrimages to Compostela up to nine times as a guide for pilgrims, and Gerberga of Flandes brought the original of the Codex Calistinus with her from Rome to Santiago. In the 14th century AD, Bridget of Sweden and Queen Isabella of Portugal traveled. In the 15th century AD, Margery Kempe visited the main holy places of Christianity. The tale of her travels is an important part of her book, The book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1436), a work considered to be the first autobiography in English. 

The last territorial distribution of Hispania, that of Diocletian, is still the Hispania of Egeria. Less than a century separates the life that Egeria led, between her native Gallaecia and the lands she visited, from the convulsive end of her world: in 476, Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and the Western Roman Empire ceased to exist. From then on, many things change and new ones emerge and develop, like the different languages of the Iberian peninsula. 

In this activity we take advantage of the last territorial distribution of Roman Hispania by Diocletian to talk about the different languages that will be created and developed from the 8th century AD on, but they had already come a long way. 

The activity is aimed at 2nd of ESO, Block The survival of classical languages. Language and literature, as a first approach to the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula. It could also be done in the subject of Latin of 4th of ESO.

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Relating the Romance and non-Romance languages of the peninsula and placing them on the map. 

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