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Auteur(s) : Stokes, Peter A
Titre(s) : English vernacular minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut c. 990-c. 1035 [Texte imprimé] / Peter A. Stokes
Publication : Woodbridge : D.S. Brewer, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII, 297 p.) : ill., fac-sim, cartes ; 24 cm
Collection : Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies ; volume 14
Lien à la collection : Publications of the Manchester center for Anglo-Saxon studies
Comprend : Background ; Attributions of origin ; Scribal change in bookhands and charters : the 'tall and narrow' hands ; Scribal continuity in bookhands and charters : the 'square-influenced' hands ; Glosses and scribbles.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) , appendix, glossary, and indexes.
- Bibliogr. p. 239-254.. - Index, glossaire
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
of writing 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, the book 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
Sujet(s) : Paléographie anglaise
Manuscrits anglais (vieil anglais)
Anglais (langue) -- 450-1100 (vieil anglais)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843843696 (Rel.). - ISBN 1843843692
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442654614
Notice n° :
FRBNF44265461
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
