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Caroline Minuscule
Author | : Andrew Taylor |
Publsiher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-09-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781444765007 |
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The first book in the brilliant William Dougal crime series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London. William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor - and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds, a deadly fairy story in which no one obeys the rules, least of all Dougal's girlfriend Amanda. As the body count rises, the couple pursue both the diamonds and their doom from London, to an East Anglian cathedral close, from Cambridge to a wintry Suffolk estuary.
The History of the Book in the West 400AD 1455
Author | : Pamela Robinson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351888134 |
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This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the Gutenberg Bible and the beginning of the print revolution. The collection opens with wide-ranging papers on handwriting and the physical make-up of the book. In the second group of papers the emphasis is on the ’look’ of the book, complemented by a third group dealing with scribes, readers and the availability of books. The editors’ introduction provides an overview of the medieval book.
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500
Author | : Jane Roberts |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Alphabet |
ISBN | : PURD:32754082021332 |
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Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language, this work is the only book available to introduce readers to the scripts used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to understand changes in scripts across time is through visual examples, and this highly illustrated book reveals precisely how Middle English is different from Old English and how these gradual changes have developed. Images from important literary texts such as Caedmon’s “Hymn” and the Lindisfarne Gospels demonstrate the chronological progression of the writing.
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Author | : Rosamond McKitterick |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521315654 |
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Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.
Their Hands Before Our Eyes A Closer Look at Scribes
Author | : M.B. Parkes |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351880060 |
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This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The following five, based on the author's Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford, then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.
English Caroline Script and Monastic History
Author | : D. N. Dumville |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0851153232 |
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An analysis and study of Caroline script from 200 years of ecclesiastical and secular records reveals important historical detail relating to late Anglo-Saxon England.
Latin Palaeography
Author | : Bernhard Bischoff |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1990-04-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521367263 |
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This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.
A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
Author | : Michelle P. Brown |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802072062 |
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Brown provides a synopsis of each of the major phases of development, a bibliography at the beginning of each section, and comments on regional and chronological diffusion where appropriate.