{"product_id":"english-caroline-script-and-monastic-history-9780851153230","title":"English Caroline Script and Monastic History","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn analysis and study of Caroline script from 200 years of ecclesiastical and secular records reveals important historical detail relating to late Anglo-Saxon England.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaroline 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In the aftermath of the final Scandinavian conquest of England [\u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003e1016] a Canterbury master-scribe created the form ofCaroline 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 evidenceas a basis for the cultural and ecclesiastical history of late Anglo-Saxon England.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David N. Dumville is professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen","brand":"David N. Dumville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280234983675,"sku":"9780851153230","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/english-caroline-script-and-monastic-history-9780851153230","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}