{"product_id":"english-caroline-script-and-monastic-history","title":"English Caroline Script and Monastic History","description":"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.\n\nCaroline 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.\n\n  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.\n\n David N. Dumville is professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54217277178200,"sku":"9780851153230","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780851153230__676532e76a0de.jpg?v=1741156982","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/english-caroline-script-and-monastic-history","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}