Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 book by Jane Roberts

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The general scope of this work is to give an overview of the variety of scripts used in the recording of English literature up to and a little beyond the introduction of print, a period too often broken up into Old English (or English up to and a little beyond the Norman Conquest of 1066) and Middle English (roughly from the Norman Conquest up to 1400 or to 1 525 or to some later date, according to the historical stance adopted). Further subdivisions refine on these period terms, for example early Middle English (or Middle English up to 6.1360), but such terms depend on assumptions made about the history of the English language and its literature, and the divisions indicated are often without particular relevance to the history of script. This book is for readers who want to explore how English was set down in writing before print became general. Its aim is to help readers to identify the sets of letter-forms in use and to understand their place in the history of script. The aim is two-fold because the readi.

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Titel

Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 book by Jane Roberts

Verlag

British Library

Veröffentlichungsdatum

2011

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0712309039

ISBN-13

9780712309035

Bindung

Softcover

Zustand

Very Good

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• Medieval History

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