Medieval Writing
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Description: An introduction to the history of writing in Western Europe, including basic paleography and the social history of literacy.
An introduction to the history of medieval writing, including the origins of our written culture, paleography and the history of scripts, and the nature of literacy and the written word in the middle ages. Manuscript books and documents, and the very process of writing itself, are part of the cultural heritage of the western world. And paleography is not a scarey word, however you spell it.
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| Page title: | Medieval Writing |
| Keywords: | medieval, history, manuscript, paleography, palaeography, writing, calligraphy, script, literature, literacy, document |
| Description: | Introduction to the history of writing, origins of written culture, history of scripts and nature of literacy in the middle ages, background to the study of paleography. |
| IP-address: | 64.136.20.54 |
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| NS | Name Server: NS1.50MEGS.COM Name Server: NS2.50MEGS.COM |
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| Date | Creation Date: 06-jun-1999 Expiration Date: 06-jun-2014 |