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  • 6 - English vernacular script

  • from PART I - THE MAKING OF BOOKS
  • Edited by Richard Gameson, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2012
    Print publication:
    22 December 2011, pp 174-186

  • Summary

    In Tudor England, access to the written word was constrained not simply by an individual's acquisition of letters, by his/her linguistic knowledge, but by mastery of script and print types. In the regions to the north and west of the former Roman Empire, writing in the vernacular developed by a process of subordination to Latin. In this period many vernacular texts appear to have been produced and multiplied outside the confines of disciplined scriptoria where house styles are evident. While Neil Ker's masterly comments offer general guidance for the dating of vernacular script. Indeed, all the evidence suggests that Vernacular Minuscule was the native script of scribes and scholars in the eleventh century. Vernacular Minuscule survived for a generation after the Norman Conquest in a number of monasteries. The history of Old English vernacular script proper, therefore, only begins in the century before the Conquest.