The Arian bishop Ulfilas devised a new alphabet for the Germanic Gothic language to translate the Bible, largely based on Greek.
Gothic is a Germanic language spoken by Goths who settled in eastern Europe, though previously they occupied regions of south Scandinavia. There were two known versions of the Gothic language, the ...
This article argues that just two aspects of the Renaissance became essential to seventeenth-century Sweden. The first was, of course, Latin Renaissance humanism, which became influential in Sweden ...
The Codex Argenteus - the 'Silver Bible' - in Uppsala University Library is one of the most famous manuscripts in the world. It contains the most comprehensive still existing text in the Gothic ...