English Caroline Script and Monastic History: Studies in Benedictinism, A.D. 950-1030 - Couverture rigide

Dumville, David N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0851153232 ISBN 13 : 9780851153230

Editeur : The Boydell Press, 1993

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 (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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Boydell Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0851153232
• ISBN 13: 9780851153230
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
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