Description: English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut c. 990 - c. 1035, Hardcover by Stokes, Peter A., ISBN 1843843692, ISBN-13 9781843843696, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 ofwriting and copying in the vernacular, including the homilies of Alfric 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, th introduces more innovative approaches: by examining all of the approximately 500 surviving examples of the script as a whole rather than focusing 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.
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Book Title: English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut c. 990 - c. 10
Number of Pages: 309 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut, Circa 990-Circa 1035
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Medieval, Handwriting, Old & Middle English, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type: Language Course
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: Peter A. Stokes
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
Format: Hardcover
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