Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780340932919
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.
Author : Jane Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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.
Author : Erik Kwakkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110862765X
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.
Author : Marc Drogin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 1989-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0486261425
Spirited history and comprehensive instruction manual covers 13 styles (ca. 4th–15th centuries). Excellent photographs; directions for duplicating medieval techniques with modern tools. "Vastly rewarding and illuminating." — American Artist.
Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107102464
Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.
Author : D. N. Dumville
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851153230
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.
Author : Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1990-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521367264
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.
Author : Peter Anthony Stokes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1843843692
First full-scale examination of the phenomenon of the English Vernacular minuscule, analysing the full corpus and giving an account of its history and development.
Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 1989-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315654
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.
Author : Raymond Clemens
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
"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.
