caa a22 4500 463200233 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9015-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9015-y Considine John Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, T6G 2E5, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut The origin of the phrases persona grata and persona non grata [Elektronische Daten] [John Considine] The phrases persona grata and persona non grata are widely used in English and other modern European languages, but their origin and development have never been fully investigated. They do not belong to classical or patristic Latin: rather, persona grata originates in the language of late medieval ecclesiastical diplomacy. After sporadic use from the 15th century to the end of the 18th, it and similar forms of words became very important in negotiations between the Protestant monarchies of Germany and the Holy See in and around the 1820s. Persona grata was then transferred to the language of international diplomacy, where it has flourished since the 1850s; the negative persona non grata, which is now more common than the positive phrase, appears to have developed in English-language contexts in the nineteenth century. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Medieval Latin nationallicence Neo-Latin nationallicence Lexicography nationallicence Oxford English Dictionary nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 525-537 0028-2677 91:3<525 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9015-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9015-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Considine John Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, T6G 2E5, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 525-537 0028-2677 91:3<525 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer