The Problem of Grade in English Vernacular Minuscule, <i>c.</i> 1060 to 1220
Peter A. Stokes
It is often asserted that writing in English had lower status than Latin during the twelfth century. However, palaeographers have generally established characteristics of lower-grade script by looking at Caroline minuscule used for Latin, and this has lead to vernacular seeming it probably was. This article seeks establish new criteria formality studying cartularies with charters but boundary-clauses English. Differences scribal practice when each language are analysed, relationship between (Latin) bodies (vernacular) bounds addressed, particularly a twelfth-century cartulary from Evesham which many portions texts were erased, leaving just
New medieval literatures