Vulgar and rabble are derogatory terms with which the lower classes are designated, with more neutral (or, in the case, admiration) terms designated as crowd, plebs, common, people or masses. The term chusma derives from the ancient Genoese word for the whole galleon (ciüsma), which in turn derives from the Greek word κέλευσμα, the rhythmic chant of the chief rower to direct the movement of the oars.
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The vulgar is the characteristic of these layers of the population, as in origin were the vulgar languages as opposed to Latin, the ecclesiastical language and culture during the Middle Ages and the Old Regime.
The Latin literary topic odi profanum vulgus, and the literary treatment of the figure of the rustic respond to that perspective, typical of the vision of the upper classes over the lower, illiterate.
Hernando del Pulgar's Mingo Revulgo is an example of the use of the concept in medieval literature.
The concept of vulgarization, in addition to its meaning in marketing (popular mark), is equivalent to popularization or, as the case may be, scientific dissemination or translation of a text from a classical language to a vulgar language. Also to the habitation of the environments and the adoption of the customs and popular diversions by the upper classes, that in Spain from the XVIII century was denominated casticismo. Notes
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