Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500
Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500

Author: Jane Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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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.

English Caroline Minuscule
English Caroline Minuscule

Author: Terence Alan Martyn Bishop

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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"First introduced into England about 950 A.D., and competing for a time with the native script, the Caroline minuscule was used for Latin letters until about 1100 A.D. 'English Caroline Minuscule' undertakes a collective treatment of the main centres. The plates are accompanied by notes on the script and other specifications of the representative MSS."--

English Caroline Script and Monastic History
English Caroline Script and Monastic History

Author: D. N. Dumville

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780851153230

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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.

The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The European Book in the Twelfth Century

Author: Erik Kwakkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 110862765X

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The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.

Latin Palaeography
Latin Palaeography

Author: Bernhard Bischoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-04-12

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521367264

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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.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

Author: Lotte Hellinga

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-09

Total Pages: 846

ISBN-13: 9780521573467

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This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.

Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Introduction to Manuscript Studies

Author: Raymond Clemens

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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"This book provides an orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies. It will be of help to students in history, art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers interested in the history of the book before the age of print. Every chapter in this guidebook features numerous color plates that exemplify each aspect described in the text and are drawn primarily from the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago and the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge."--Book jacket.

Carolingian Catalonia
Carolingian Catalonia

Author: Cullen J. Chandler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1108474640

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Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.