This site is getting more complicated. Clicking on a heading on this page will get you to a more detailed part of the site map, and from there you go to the real stuff. Two clicks rather than one, but you have a fighting chance of finding what you are looking for.
Do you like the page design? I was inspired by an entry in Web Pages That Suck. Well, it does look like a lollipop!
- Manuscripts as Historical Sources
- Where to Find Manuscripts
- Why Paleography Sucks
- Handling Manuscripts
- Reading Manuscripts (Languages, Diplomatic, Weights and Measures)
- Dating Manuscripts
Authors, Scribes and Libraries
This contains some introductory material about who composed books and documents, who wrote them down and how libraries developed.
A little compilation of the nature of literate knowledge and written bureaucracy from the middle ages.
An introduction to the physical forms of medieval written products, such as the single sheet document, the codex, the roll and the wax tablet.
Page design, calligraphy, initials and borders, miniatures, bookbindings and seals are all examined.
This attempts to examine what literacy meant and how it changed during the middle ages for different areas of society.
These are a series of maps of Europe showing the history of scripts over the centuries, and other aspects of the development of writing.
This is a little collection of odd and interesting things in the manuscript line. They are all linked from various other sections.
Glossary All the words about writing.
Bibliography Lots of books about writing.
Links Plenty of other websites about writing.
Who Are We? Good question.
Copyright Read before pillaging.
Search Use Google to search this website
If you are looking at this page without frames, there is more information about medieval writing to be found by going to the home page (framed).
