A clean, authoritative glossary of the most important Latin → English false friends you will encounter across the Vulgate and especially the Psalms.
These are words whose meanings have shifted, narrowed, broadened, or distorted in English, often creating theological misunderstandings.
What if Europe had written in logograms instead of alphabets? This article explores the difference between phonological and logographic writing systems and asks how Europe’s cultural trajectory might have changed. From Latin as a lingua franca to the rise of vernaculars like Dante, Chaucer, and Luther’s Bible, the alphabet proved to be the hidden engine of literacy, dissent, and progress.