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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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Jerusalem - earthly and heavenly, past, present and future - has always informed the Christian imagination: it is the intersection of the divine and human worlds, of time and eternity. Since the fourth century, it has been the site of the round Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the empty tomb acknowledged by Constantine as the tomb of Christ. Nearly four hundred years later, the Sepulchre's rotunda was rivalled by the octagon of the Dome of the Rock. The city itself and these two glorious buildings within it remain, to this day, the focus of pilgrimage and of intense devotion.Jerusalem and its numinous buildings have been distinctively re-imagined and re-presented in the design, topography, decoration and dedications of some very striking and beautiful churches and cities in Western Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Ethiopia. Some are famous, others are in the West almost unknown. The essays In this richly illustrated book combine to do justice to these evocative buildings' architecture, roles and history. The volume begins with an introduction to the Sepulchre itself, from its construction under Constantine to the Crusaders' rebuilding which survives to this day. Chapters follow on the Dome of the Rock and on the later depiction and signifcance of the Jewish Temple. The essays then move further afeld, uncovering the links between Jerusalem and Byzantium, the Caucasus, Russia and Ethiopia. Northern Europe comes fnally into focus, with chapters on Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, the role of the military orders in spreading the form of the Sepulchre, a gazetteer of English rounds, and studies of London's New Temple.

Church Architecture --- Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem) --- Jerusalem --- Temple Mount (Jerusalem) --- Religious life and customs. --- Church architecture --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) --- Church architecture - Jerusalem. --- Jérusalem --- Saint-Sépulcre (Jérusalem) --- Church. --- Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem) --- Symbolic representation. --- Architecture Worldwide. --- Architecture. --- Christian Imagination. --- Church of the Holy Sepulchre. --- Dome of the Rock. --- Essays. --- History. --- Jerusalem Imagery. --- Jerusalem. --- King's College London. --- Pilgrimage. --- Religion. --- Robin Griffith-Jones. --- Sacred Buildings. --- Temple Church. --- Symbolism in architecture. --- Themes, motives. --- Qubbat al- Sakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)