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English Caroline Script and Monastic History

By Dumville, David N.

English Caroline Script and Monastic History

By Dumville, David N.

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Caroline minuscule script was adopted in England in the mid-tenth century in imitation of Continental usage. A badge of ecclesiastical reform, it was practised in Benedictine scriptoria but was also taken up by members of the royal writing office; the chancery occupied an important place in the pioneering of calligraphic fashions. During its approximately two-century history in England, Caroline script developed a number of forms, in part reflecting different tendencies within the Reform-cause. The Rule of St Benedict was focal for this movement. In the aftermath of the final Scandinavian conquest of England (AD 1016) a Canterbury master-scribe created the form of Caroline writing which was to become a mark of Englishness and outlive the Norman Conquest. In the closing chapter its inventor's career is discussed and his achievement assessed. This volume offers analysis of manuscript evidence as a basis for the cultural and ecclesiastical history of late Anglo-Saxon England. DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in Early Medieval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
1993-06-01
Publication Date:
1993-05-06
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0851153232
ISBN13:
9780851153230
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
505 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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