Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages - Nees, Lawrence (University of Delaware)
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The array of features we take for granted in modern print and digital books à â â fonts, word spacing, capitalisation à â â were all invented in the early medieval period. This richly illustrated study tells how the impetus lay in changes to late Roman reading practices and not, as often assumed, within non-classical sources.

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The array of features we take for granted in modern print and digital books à â â fonts, word spacing, capitalisation à â â were all invented in the early medieval period. This richly illustrated study tells how the impetus lay in changes to late Roman reading practices and not, as often assumed, within non-classical sources.
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Lawrence Nees is Professor of Medieval Art and H. Fletcher Brown Chair of the Humanities at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Gundohinus Gospels; From Justinian to Charlemagne: European Art A.D. 565¿787; A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court; Early Medieval Art 300¿1000; Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem, and edited Approaches to Early-Medieval Art. He is currently preparing two books: Illuminating the Word: On the beginnings of medieval book decoration, and Frankish Manuscripts 7th-10th Centuries. Professor Nees has received research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center of Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, and the National Humanities Center.