Their hands before our eyes : a closer look at scribes : the Lyell lectures delivered in the University of Oxford, 1999 /
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| Author / Creator: | Parkes, M. B. (Malcolm Beckwith) |
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008. |
| Description: | xix, 188 p., [69] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lyell lectures ; 1999 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7412728 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Scribes and Their Environments
- Before 1100; 1100-1540 Religious orders in England; 1100-1500 Secular scribes in England: clergy, scholars, professional and commercial scribes
- Part II. Scribes at Work
- Which came first reading or writing? The function and processes of handwriting and the problems of copying
- The hasty scribe; cursive handwriting in antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Set in their own ways: scribes and book hands c.800-1200
- Features of fashion: scribes and style c1200-1500
- Through the eyes of scribes and readers: handwriting as image
- Part II. Glossary, Indexes and Select List of Printed Works
- Select glossary of technical terms applied to handwriting
- Index of scribes referred to by name or pseudonym
- Index of manuscripts cited
- Select list of printed works cited
- General index