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Who copied Greek and Roman manuscripts?
Scribes did that job.
What means illuminated manuscripts?
Illuminated manuscripts are brilliantly colored, hand-written books with illustrations.
Who invented the language?
Anglosaxon and latin
Why were books written during the middle ages called manuscripts?
Medieval books are manuscripts, which means they were written by hand.
Why were manuscripts so expensive in the early fifteenth century?
Manuscripts were expensive in the early fifteenth century because they were meticulously hand-copied by skilled scribes and often lavishly decorated by illuminators. The process was time-consuming and required costly materials like vellum, ink, and pigments. Additionally, the demand for manuscripts was high among the wealthy elite, further driving up the prices.
How did ancient maunscripts get reproduced?
They were copied by hand one at a time.
What was the room called where books were copied by hand was called a?
the library
What is a scriptorium?
A medieval scriptorium was the room, or building, usually part of a church or monastery where books and documents were copied by hand before the invention of a printing press or movable typeset. Usually an orator would read the book to be copied aloud and multiple writers would copy it. It was in these scriptoria that the most beautiful illuminated books were produced during the medieval period.
How did people learn how to walk and talk and read and write?
Before the Renaissance, few people could read. Religious writers and monks who copied manuscripts by hand needed the skills of literacy, but most other people got along just fine without ever knowing how to read or write.
What was the role of a medieval scribe?
scribes wrote/copied books (AKA manuscripts) as there was no computers in the middle ages. they wrote on parchment or vellum using quills and also illistrated
In AngloSaxon poetry the term wave walker would be an example of what?
Alliteration
What was a function the public recital of poetry in the AngloSaxon and Scandinavian cultures?
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