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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (Paperback)
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Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (Paperback)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language
has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts
used in Old and Middle English writing. The best way to gain a
sense of changes in scripts across time is through visual examples.
The reader is introduced gradually to vocabulary suitable for the
description of script through a range of plates, for example,
Caedmon's Hymn (the earliest extant English poem); the opening of
an Exeter Book poem; the Lindisfarne Gospels; the opening page of
King Alfred's first translation; an illustrated version of the
story of Abraham and Isaac; passages from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle; early (Lazamon) and late tellings of the story of Arthur
(Malory); contrasting manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde; Langland; York plays. Each plate is reproduced full size
where possible, accompanied by a full transcript, commentary and
notes.
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