I play a low fantasy game in which we are setting up a guild of scholars. We want to include a fairly realistic representation of how linguistics were studies and spread historically. The setting is similar to the late medieval period, but pre-printing press (or at least the printing press isn't available to the common populace). Any information about the topic during the breadth of the medieval period (early to late), interesting anecdotes etc will be useful, as well as other resources I can look into.
Thanks!
There really wasn't much in the way of linguistics in the medieval era, at least in Europe. The earliest stuff really dates to the 18th century. I have in mind here Sir William Jones, Mikhail Lomonosov, and other early philologists. Of note is that they're most often called philologists, though, and not linguists.