Latin Shorthand and Latin Learning
David Ganz
In 1975 Bernhard Bischoff reminded his audience at Spoleto that any account of Carolingian culture requires a knowledge Tironian notes, and Martin Hellmann has taken up challenge. This paper attempts to show the use these notes was neither arcane nor restrictive but met need all societies find an effective way record direct speech. Though restricted section educated elite, in complete or simplified form standard part notarial training, were taught most major centres west Rhine. The evidence sermons shows some preachers as extempore Augustine Gregory, relied on someone recording what they saying, this practice continued schoolroom. How far scribes copied Late Antique their copies texts remains unclear deserves investigation.
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