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Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as medium of scholarly exchange and as liturgical language of the Roman Catholic Church, but also as language of science, literature, law, and administration. Therefore Latin-skills are the basic premise to read and understand a wide range of sources from this period of time.  We would like to draw your attention to two tutorials created by experts from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland National Archives that provide help to improve reading skills in Medieval Latin by translating sentences taken from real documents held at The National Archives.

12 basic lessons: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners

12 advanced  lessons: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/advanced

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How to read and transcribe German handwriting? For reading and analyzing archival records from the 18th century onwards until the end of World War II knowledge of the development of German handwriting is essential. A significant part of the cultural heritage like literary manuscripts, diarys, letters, records of all kinds of administrration is written in Sütterlin.
The online-tutorial SLP 2000 - the result of a cooperation research program of the Universities of Potsdam and Saarbrücken - will help you to learn Sütterlin properly. After the installation of the Sütterlin character set, the online-tutorial will work without any problems on every computer.

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