This field provides the nickname of the 7th-century author Virgilius Maro, whose Epistolae claims that the scholars Galbungus and Terrentius spent 14 straight days debating the vocative case of ego. For 10 points each:
[10e] What field’s prevalence in Late Antiquity is the subject of Robert Kaster’s Guardians of Language? This field forms the trivium with logic and rhetoric.
ANSWER: grammar [or ars grammatica; accept Virgil the Grammarian]
[10m] Increasing Late Antique confusion over Latin grammar is exemplified by this kingdom’s wooden Albertini tablets. This kingdom continued the export of “red slip ware” and lost the Battle of Ad Decimum.
ANSWER: Vandal Kingdom
[10h] A key source on the “vulgarisms” that characterized Proto-Romance is this 4th-century Hispano-Roman traveler’s Peregrinatio, which details her visits to the holy sites of the Levant.
ANSWER: Egeria [or Etheria or Aetheria; accept Itinerarium Egeriae]
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