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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are two series of passionate and intellectual correspondences apparently written in Latin during the 12th century. The purported authors, Peter Abelard, a prominent theologian, and his pupil, Heloise, a gifted young woman later renowned as an abbess, exchanged these letters following their ill-fated love affair and subsequent monastic lives.
Rubrication was one of several steps in the medieval process of manuscript making. The term comes from the Latin rubrīcāre , "to color red", the base word being ruber , "red". The practice began in pharaonic Egypt with scribes emphasizing important text, such as headings, new parts of a narrative, etc., on papyri with red ink.
Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross.We do have some secular poetry; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf.
Leather hornbook in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection. Horn books, battledore books and crisscross books were all tablets designed primarily to teach the alphabet to children [6] laid out as an abecedarium, the elementary method of teaching used from Antiquity to the Middle Ages where letters of the alphabet were taught by rote. [7]
The new poetic (as well as musical: some of the earliest medieval music has lyrics composed in Old French by the earliest composers known by name) tendencies are apparent in the Roman de Fauvel in 1310 and 1314, a satire on abuses in the medieval church filled with medieval motets, lais, rondeaux and other new secular forms of poetry and music ...
Medieval writing scripts — writing systems used in Medieval manuscripts and other written documents & communications. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Archaeologists uncovered the medieval token while working on the Gdańsk Crane. This wooden crane was built in the 15th century and is the oldest of its kind in Europe.
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