Palaeography
Palaeography
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Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. A...Read more
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Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text
Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways th...Read more
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Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
The ancient Mediterranean world brought to us by Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus is one of politic...Read more
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Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
A detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance out...Read more
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The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Albert Derolez has developed new terminology for describing the different scripts in this detailed s...Read more
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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500
Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language, this work is the only book ...Read more
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Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
First published in 1979, this work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offer...Read more
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The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Albert Derolez has developed new terminology for describing the different scripts in this detailed s...Read more
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The Irish Hand: Scribes and Their Manuscripts from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century with an Exemplar of Irish Scripts
The Irish Hand presents an illustrated anthology and exemplar of Irish calligraphy over ten centurie...Read more
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Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading
Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. A...Read more
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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500
Despite a resurgence of interest in the history of the English language, this work is the only book ...Read more