The period from 1200 to 1450 represents the expansion of Romance as a language of culture and the beginning of standardisation for some of the peninsular varieties. This process entailed a reconfiguration of the Latin/Romance contact, which ceased to obey a situation of diglossia, although Latin continued to function as a language of prestige. It is within this framework that we must situate the advance of Romance in the different texts and discursive traditions previously reserved for Latin, the role of translations from Latin into Romance and the diffusion of lexical, morphological and syntactic Latinisms that enter the vernaculars through these channels.