ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Illuminated Manuscript, Heptarchy, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
26 Feb 2018
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Bede, historia ecclesiastica gentis alorum the vernacular: composed in latin: the language of/learning writing; versus anglo-saxon, witten by scribes and were stored and circulated in (monastery) (cid:498)published(cid:499) in manuscript (cid:523)written by hand) on parchment or vellum. )nitially gathered and preserved in scrolled, then in codex (cid:523)latin for (cid:498)block of wood(cid:499)(cid:524) form, in which the parchment is folded in what resembles a book. libraries. Many of these preserved texts were lost during viking invasions: his immediate audience would have been monks in his disciple. However, it can be argued that he wrote for a greater audience, as the monastery would transmit his narratives and chronicles through his work. His text refers to one group although at the time there was a heptarchy. King edwin account: the account of edwin"s conversion offered by bede turns on two events. The first, during edwin"s exile, tells how edwin"s life was saved by paulinus of.
