English Caroline Script and Monastic History
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A01=David N. Dumville
Author_David N. Dumville
Benedictine scriptoria
calligraphic fashions
Canterbury master-scribe
Caroline script
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chancery
ecclesiastical records
ecclesiastical reform
Englishness
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late Anglo-Saxon England
Norman Conquest
royal writing office
Scandinavian conquest
secular records
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- ISBN 9780851153230
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 1993
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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 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.
David N. Dumville is professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen
