Re: [tied] 'catholic' in OE

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
>
> > The earliest citation in the OED is from the 15th
> c.:
> >
> > He was a constant Catholike,
> > All Lollard he hatyt and Heretike.
> >
> > [Andrew of Wyntoun, ca. 1425, _Orygynale Cronykil
> of Scotland_ 9:26]
> > ...
>
> Thank you very much, Piotr. It was a discussion with
> an adept of a
> Russian pseudo-scientific movement (The New
> Chronology,
> http://www.newchrono.ru, in case you don't already
> have it in your
> kookie sites collection) that made me to ask this
> question. The
> movement was found in early 80s by a matematician
> Anatoly Fomenko.
> One of it's main points is that all the sources on
> European (and
> patrly human in general) history older than the 16th
> c. are
> falsified, and dead languages are created by
> falsifiers as well. His
> point was that the word _catholic_ can't be found in
> English sources
> before 16th c.
>
> Sergei

*****GK: And of course, the term "Catholicus"is a
staple of mediaeval Anglo-Latin texts, of which, pace
Fomenko and co., there are plenty of datable and dated
pre-16th c. manuscripts. Latin and Norman French
(after 1066) were official languages of the English
realm prior to 1362, and Latin was the principal
language of English "Catholic" academics (pardon my
mentioning the obvious. I know everyone knows this
(except Fomenko? (:=))******

>
>

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