El cambio del latín al romance en la cancillería real de Castilla

Abstract

In Castile the movement in favor of vernacularization became manifest in law, literature, and historiography during the thirteenth century. In the royal chancery the change occurred during the second quarter of the century. The principal agents were the vicechancellors and certain scribes, notably those from Segovia. Written Romance was first recognized as a language separate from Latin, rather than as a deformation or variety of it, no later than the first decade of the thirteenth century. Its use was generalized in the chancery after the middle of the 1240s in a process completed by mid-century.