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First published in 1979, this work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance and outlines the history of book illumination. By setting the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture.
This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text
which throws light on the intellectual history of early medieval
Europe. The biblical commentaries represent the teaching of two
gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East.
Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury (668-90) and his colleague
Hadrian (d. 710) taught the Bible to a group of Anglo-Saxon
scholars, who recorded their teaching. The resulting commentaries
illustrate the high point of biblical scholarship between late
antiquity and the Renaissance. The commentaries, found by Professor
Bischoff in Milan in 1936, constitute one of the most important
medieval texts discovered this century. The edition is introduced
by substantial chapters on the intellectual background of the texts
and their manuscript sources. The Latin texts themselves are
accompanied by facing English translations and extensive notes.
This volume includes the first edition of a previously unknown text that throws new light on the intellectual history of early medieval Europe. The Biblical commentaries represent the teaching of two gifted Greek scholars who came to England from the Byzantine East: Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury and his colleague Hadrian. They taught the Bible to a group of Anglo-Saxon scholars, who recorded their teaching. The resulting commentaries constitute the high point of Biblical scholarship between late antiquity and the Renaissance. The edition is introduced by substantial chapters on the intellectual background of the texts and their manuscript sources. The Latin texts themselves are accompanied by facing English translations and extensive notes.
Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991) was one of the most renowned scholars
of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. His most
outstanding contribution to learning was in the field of
Carolingian studies, where his work is based on the catalogue of
all extant ninth-century manuscripts and fragments. In this book,
Michael Gorman has selected and translated seven of his classic
essays on aspects of eighth- and ninth-century culture. They
include an investigation of the manuscript evidence and the role of
books in the transmission of culture from the sixth to the ninth
century, and studies of the court libraries of Charlemagne and
Louis the Pious. Bischoff also explores centres of learning outside
the court in terms of the writing centres and the libraries
associated with major monastic and cathedral schools respectively.
This rich collection provides a full, coherent study of Carolingian
culture from a number of different yet interdependent aspects,
providing insights for scholars and students alike.
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