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Old Roman cursive, also called majuscule cursive and capitalis cursive, was the everyday form of handwriting used for writing letters, by merchants writing business accounts, by schoolchildren learning the Latin alphabet, and even by emperors issuing commands.
Cursive became the popular styling for the Cyrillic alphabet in the 15th century, as Muscovy was laying the foundations of a centralized Russian state. Within the history of the Latin alphabet, a first step toward modern cursive writing was Carolingian minuscule.
The cursive writing we recognize today started developing in Europe the 16 th century. Connecting letters with loops and tails seemed to grow increasingly more uniform across languages as education became more available to the citizens of those nations.
“Handwriting in the United States meant cursive until 1921 when Manuscript Writing was brought from England by Margaret Wise,” explains Donica, “This style of writing had been proposed in 1913...
In the mid-1800s an abolitionist and bookkeeper named Platt Rogers Spencer attempted to democratize American penmanship by formulating a cursive writing system, known as the Spencerian method...
Cursive writing was invented by the ancient Egyptians, who used it to write hieroglyphics on papyrus scrolls [2]. The ancient Romans also used a cursive form of writing, called cursive Latin [3], in the 1st to 3rd century BC.
It goes as far back as the Roman Empire, after written language first developed. Square capitals were used on inscriptions on buildings and monuments (some of which are still standing), but cursive (or script) was used for daily writing. Scripts and styles have changed since the fifth century.
The history of cursive begins in ancient Greece and Rome, where early versions of it were most likely used to hasten writing and prevent damage to the writing tool. In antiquity, a cursive form of handwriting was used in writing on papyrus in the Greek alphabet.
Understanding Cursive’s Past By Jason Gelb. The history behind cursive begins in ancient Greece and Rome, where early versions of it were most likely used to hasten writing and prevent damage to the writing tool.
Recent debates about the value of teaching students to write in cursive inspired us to explore the evolution of handwriting instruction in the classroom by taking a look at some objects from our education collection.