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Title: ENGLISH CAROLINE SCRIPT AND MONASTIC HISTORY
STUDIES IN BENEDICTINISM, AD 950-1030
By: Professor David N. Dumville
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0851153232
ISBN 13: 9780851153230
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER LTD
Pub. date: 6 May, 1993
Series: Studies in Anglo-Saxon History v. 6
Pages: 222
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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 (AD1016) 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 professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen
Illustrations: 16 Illustrations, black and white
Publication: UK
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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