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A new, distinct script, English Vernacular minuscule, emerged in the 990s, used for writing in Old English. It appeared at a time of great political and social upheaval, with Danish incursions and conquest, continuing monastic reform, and an explosion of writing and copying in the vernacular, including the homilies of Ælfric and Wulfstan, two different recensions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, two of the four major surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry (the "Beowulf" and "Junius" books), and many original royal and ecclesiastical diplomas, writs and wills. However, although these important manuscripts and documents have been studied extensively, this has tended to be in isolation or small groups, never before as a complete corpus, a gap which this volume aims to rectify. It opens with the historical context, followed by a thorough reexamination of the evidence for dating and localising examples of the script. It them offers a full analysis of the complete corpus of surviving writing in English Vernacular minuscule, datable approximately from its inception in the 990s to the death of Cnut in 1035. While solidly grounded in palaeographical methodology, the book introduces more innovative approaches: by examining all of the approximately 500 surviving examples of the script as a whole rather than focussing on selected highlights, it presents a synthesis of the handwriting in order to identify local practices, new scribal connections, and chronological and stylistic developments in this important but surprisingly little-studied script. Peter Stokes is Senior Lecturer at King's College London.
930.272 =20 --- 930.272 =20 Paleografie--Engels --- Paleografie--Engels --- English language --- Writing, Minuscule. --- Minuscule writing --- Paleography --- Germanic languages --- Written English. --- Alphabet. --- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. --- Beowulf. --- Danish incursions. --- English Vernacular Minuscule. --- King's College London. --- Old English. --- Peter Stokes. --- Wulfstan. --- monastic reform. --- Ælfric.
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An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts. This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. The book offers a detailed technical introduction to the handwriting of the period, from "secretary hand" through the "copperplate" that defined the early British Empire. Case studies trace the significance of manuscript to British cultural identity, exploring the intersections of manuscript and print, the roles of manuscript in the bureaucracy of the early modern state, and the complex practices surrounding manuscript in the lives of early modern readers and writers. Exercises offer the opportunity to practice reading and transcription, pointing to examples ranging from John Lydgate through William Wordsworth. Richly illustrated and drawing extensively on Yale University collections, this book opens the study of early modern English manuscript to a new generation of students and scholars.
930.272 =20 --- 091.14:003 --- 091.14 --- 091 =20 --- 091 "15/17" --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- 091 "15/17" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Moderne Tijd --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Moderne Tijd --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091.14:003 Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- Codices--schrift-- Zie ook: {930.272} Paleografie --- 930.272 =20 Paleografie--Engels --- Paleografie--Engels --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1799
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This collection of essays brings out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.
09 <082> --- 091 <41> --- 930.272 =20 --- 930.272 =20 Paleografie--Engels --- Paleografie--Engels --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 09 <082> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) --- Enluminure médiévale --- Mélanges et hommages --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- History. --- England --- Intellectual life --- 1066-1485
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