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	Visigothic script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Visigothic script was a type of medieval script, so called because it originated in the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.
		The script was used from approximately the late 7th century until the 13th century, mostly in Visigothic Spain but also somewhat in southern France.
		From the standard script, a capital-letter display script was developed, with long slender forms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visigothic_script (336 words)

	Facts about topic: (Merovingian script) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Each script developed from uncial (A style of orthography characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; found especially in Greek and Latin manuscripts of the 4th to 8th centuries), half-uncial (additional info and facts about half-uncial), and the Merovingian charter scripts).
		In the Luxeuil minuscule (A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts) script, the letter a resembles two letter cs ("cc"); b often has an open bow, and an arm connecting it to the following letter.
		There was also a Merovingian cursive (Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper) script, used in charters and non-religious writings.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/merovingian_script.htm (488 words)

	Post-Roman Scripts
		The abbey was destroyed by the Saracens in 732, causing the demise of the script, although the abbey was later rebuilt.
		The script of the papal curia up to the 10th century, curialis or littera Romana, and the related Ravenna chancery script were highly exaggerated calligraphic scripts with long ascenders and descenders, loops and ligatures; very impressive but not highly legible.
		Merovingian chancery script was employed in the writing office of the early Frankish kings.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/history4.htm (1136 words)

	Palaeography
		Uncial script began to replace rustic capitals as the main script in use around the fourth or fifth century AD, and by the sixth century the Roman letterforms were relegated mostly to use for headings or titles.
		A minuscule script was written between four ruled lines, rather than two, and is easily recognized by the modern eye as having upper and lower case letters; the lower-case letters have prominent ascenders (on letters such as l, b, d, etc.) and descenders (on p, q, and g, for example).
		Beneventan, the national script of Italy (or more properly, of the Duchy of Benevento, in the south part of Italy), was practiced between the middle of the eighth century until the thirteenth century, though a few very late (16th century) examples have been found in isolated areas.
	members.tripod.com /nicolaa5/articles/pal.html (2584 words)

	Caroline Minuscule
		Accompanying the reform of the minuscule scripts was a return to standard Classical forms of the majuscule scripts such as uncial, and also half uncial, for display headings.
		The script was adopted in northern Italy in the early part of the 9th century, building on a base of existing script reform.
		The Merovingian chancery script and its Carolingian successor were retained in Germany until around the mid 9th century and in France until the 10th century.
	medievalwriting.50megs.com /scripts/history5.htm (971 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Uncial
		Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes.
		In later uncial scripts, the letters are sometimes drawn haphazardly; for example, double-l runs together at the baseline, bows (for example in b, p, r) do not entirely curve in to touch their stems, and the script is generally not written as cleanly as previously.
		French (that is, Merovingian) uncial uses thin descenders (in g, p, etc), an x with lines that cross higher than the middle, and a d with a curled stem (somewhat resembling an apple), and there are many decorations of fish, trees, and birds.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Uncial (1114 words)

	The Merovingian and Carolingian Kings (from France) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Merovingian art is characterized by a mixture of the...
		Luxeuil, in Burgundy, was a particularly important centre in the development of a Merovingian cursive style during the 7th and 8th centuries.
		The style of script that developed in northern France at the monastery of Corbie, a daughter house of Luxeuil, is...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201135 (800 words)

	History: Mérovingiens
		The power of the first Merovingians was limited originally to the kingdoms of Cambrai, ruled by Clodio, and Tournai, governed by Childeric.
		Charles, whose surname means “the hammer,” was the son of Pepin of Herstal and the grandfather of Charlemagne.
		Pepin was mayor of the palace under the last kings of the Merovingian dynasty.
	www.froggyfiles.com /merovingian.htm (1142 words)

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		While this script is virtually illegible to the untrained eye, it would have a profound inf luence on the development of script henceforth.
		A minuscule script was written between four ruled lines, rather than two, and is easily recognized by the modern eye as having upper and lower case letters; the lower-ca se letters have prominent ascenders (on letters such as l, b, d, etc.) and descenders (on p, q, and g, for example).
		Beneventan, the national script of Italy (or more properly, of the Duchy of Benevento, in the south part of Italy), was practiced between the middle of the eighth century until the thirteenth century, though a few ver y late (16th century) examples have been found in isolated areas.
	www.florilegium.org /files/NICOLAA/Paleo-Scribes-art.rtf (3000 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The script was used from approximately the mid-8th century until the 13th century, although there are examples from as late as the 16th century.
		According to Lowe the perfected form of the script was used in the 11th century, while Pope Victor III Desiderius was abbot of Monte Cassino, declining thereafter.
		In other scripts there is often little or no punctuation, but standard punctuation forms were developed for the Beneventan script, including the basis for the modern question mark.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Beneventan_script.html (490 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		The later Merovingian kings were a sorry lot who were uninterested in the details of governing.
		Later in his rule, the reigning Merovingian king being an incompetent drunkard, Pepin sent a letter to the Pope asking for his support in deposing the king.
		The Merovingians had signally failed to rule other peoples, or even themselves, and it was this system that Charles had inherited.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/westciv/charlemagne.html (5347 words)

	Matrix Essays : The Matrix Essays Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The scene of the cake also points to that aspect since his action is worthy of a demon, and the descendents of the Merovingians, the sect of the Cathars, were considered as heretics by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages and accused of witchcraft.
		In that case the Merovingian could be either be a One that never completed its mission or a fallen angel, a program designed to look over the Matrix that rebelled against the keepers of the Matrix.
		The word Merovingian is taken from the name of a blood line of kings who ruled what is present-day France in the 5th to 8th century.
	matrixessays.blogspot.com /2003_05_01_matrixessays_archive.html (13181 words)

	Merovingian Calligraphy
		Experts on the scribal arts are not a judgmental lot, but Merovingian calligraphy is one area in which they venture a critical toe outside the boundaries of their scholasticism.
		Merovingian is just one of the styles of writing that evolved shortly after the fall of Rome.
		Merovingian evolved from a fabulous array of sources, the oldest of which was the littera caelestia used for all imperial Roman documents after 367A.D. It was a rather scribbly cursive, written with a pointed (intead of a broad-edged) pen, and was just barely legible to the officials of the day.
	www.housebarra.com /EP/ep07/10calli.html (1221 words)

	KMC Forums - Gnostics - The origins of the Merovingians
		The Merovingians maintained an uninterrupted, unquestioned reign over Gaul and West Germany for three centuries; but, in spite of their achievements, history largely ignored the likes of Clovis I for the more enigmatic Arthur, or the more imperial Charlemagne, both of whom had better publicists.
		Most of the actual administration of the Merovingian kingdom was carried out by a Mayor of the Palace, a kind of prime minister; and during the last 100 years of Merovingian rule, more and more power slipped into the hands of the mayors.
		The kings of the Late Merovingian period are often referred to as les rois faineants or the feeble kings, partly due to their lack of authority, but mostly because the average age of ascendants was six5.
	www.killermovies.com /forums/f42/t6498.html (2055 words)

	Carolingian Scripts
		The page on the left opening a new text is composed of a variety different scripts, and is a good example of the Carolingian revival of older forms.
		The earliest dated surviving examples of the script are found in a Bible copied at Corbie in the 770s at the order of Abbot Maurdramm and in some dedicatory verses added to an Evangelistary copied in the entourage of Charlemagne between 781 and 783.....
		The orderliness, simplicity, clarity, and dignity of the new script were virtues that made a special appeal to a man like Charlemagne, who, as we know, was not above taking a profound interest in the labours of scribes.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/arth212/Carolingian_Culture/carolingian_scripts.html (832 words)

	Medieval Calligraphy
		Born out of the Roman Square Capital script, Roman Rustic was a popular, functional book script, and had become the standard book script for the Empire until the medieval era.
		This script represents wide and curved letters, which are considered to be easier and faster to write than straight lines and angles.
		The script was later dropped by the scribes because of its severe calligraphic restrictions.
	courses.dce.harvard.edu /~humae105/fall97/twest/time.htm (473 words)

	MSN Encarta - Romanesque Art and Architecture
		These styles, characterized by the use of animal forms and complex decorative patterns, differ according to region; that of Ireland is known as Celtic; that of England, Saxon; that of France, Merovingian; and that of Spain, Visigothic.
		The second legacy was a major reform of the late Merovingian script, by then debased and illegible, which accompanied the large production of manuscripts.
		This new form of writing, known as Caroline minuscule, in which the letters were neatly formed and the words clearly separated from one another, provided the basis for the lower case letters of the Latin, or Roman, alphabet.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570708/Romanesque_Art_and_Architecture.html (1625 words)

	Search Results for merovingian - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It was only in the first half of the 8th century that manuscripts began to be elaborately decorated in the Frankish kingdom (an area roughly comprising northern France and southwestern Germany as far...
		The period of the Merovingian and Carolingian Frankish dynasties (450–987) encompasses the early Middle Ages.
		Merovingian king of Soissons from 511 and of the whole Frankish...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=merovingian&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (300 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "The Matrix: Revolutions" 2-disc Widescreen DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Morpheus and Trinity help Neo escape from the train station, which is run by the Merovingian, as the human city of Zion gears up to defend itself against the massive invasion of the machines.
		The flaws in the script are evidence of the writers churning out scene after scene without taking into consideration the factors that the first film so exciting and involving.
		The script is not complex enough, events taking place in real time, and in the case of several scenes this storytelling format slows down the film's pace.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/m/matrixrevolutions.htm (1034 words)

	MatrixTheories.com \| An Intellectual Perspective of the Matrix -> Purpose of the Merovingian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So the Merovingian is an exiled program, a program written by machines to perform some task with regard to the Matrix who is no longer needed to perform that task.
		The Merovingian kings are the leaders of the Sicambrian franks, which started with clovis I and ended with Pepin the short.
		After the rise and fall of the Knights Templar after a Papal Bull ended their reign by Pope clement the fifth, the merovingians were the blood line of christ and protected by the Knights of the Temple.
	www.matrixtheories.com /index.php?act=ST&f=13&t=306&s=aaeb0c38426065c9436dd8df64af1813 (1611 words)

	The Carolingian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Merovingian script all but unreadable, and each copying led to new corruptions in the text.
		This script is characterized by clear, neat letters, with each word clearly separated from one another, rather than all run together as Merovingian script often was.
		Alcuin formed a scriptorium, a writing office, which produced many books in the new script and influenced writers far and wide.
	history.boisestate.edu /westciv/charles/16.shtml (288 words)

	The Schoyen Collection: Palaeography -- 4.3. Latin book scripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		script, headings in large red uncials, several initials in pale red or brown.
		While the other national scripts derive from Roman cursive and half uncial, the runes origin from Roman capitals with influence from Greek and Phoenician.
		Most of the national scripts were extinct in the 9th c.
	www.nb.no /baser/schoyen/4/4.4/443_2.html (1904 words)

	Prose and Letters : The Story of Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because once the first components of the craft are mastered, that is, the tools, the scripts and an understanding of the text, then the calligrapher will most likely begin a quest for his or her spiritual heritage.
		Studying the ductus of an old script is useful, but a grasp of the time and culture that produced the script will give a clearer understanding of how that writing was an expression of its culture and the human spirit of its time.
		The calligrapher is in harmony with his script, his tools, the text and his own spiritual heritage." Her work at the British Library in charge of Oriental manuscripts has provided her with a discerning knowledge of calligraphic manuscripts of Middle and Far Eastern cultures.
	www.proseandletters.com /BookReviewsPages/StoryofWriting.html (1535 words)

	The Matrix Reloaded v 2. :: MarkTAW.com
		Interestingly, she summons Merovingian back so he can fight to regain the Keymaker rather than just letting them escape.
		Merovingian gives us some interesting philsophy to ponder, and most importantly drives home that without a "why," or a reason, they are powerless, just doing what they are told, just reacting.
		Merovingian's wife Persephone takes them to the Keymaker, but only if Neo kisses her, which causes some tension with Trinity.
	www.marktaw.com /reviews/TheMatrixReloadedv2.html (3611 words)

	Latino Review
		Amongst his new adversaries are a rich and powerful tycoon known as the Merovingian (Lambert Wilson) and the return of Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) a sentient program and enforcer within the Matrix who although seemingly destroyed by Neo has now gone rogue with the uncanny ability to replicate himself.
		When Neo interfaces with the machine mainframe he encounters the Architect (Helmut Bakaitus) a sentient program who as the creator of the Matrix informs him that the prophecy of the Oracle was a form of control devised by the machines and that he is not the savior of mankind.
		Morpheus, Trinity and Seraph (Collin Chou) all confront the Merovingian after an impressive gravity-defying shootout in a fetish after-hours club (one of the film's only two kung-fu sequences) and the twins are nowhere in sight.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2003/wb/matrixrevolutions/bluepillreview.html (2653 words)

	Caroline Minuscule: The Expression of Power
		Before Charlemagne, in the Merovingian era, power was expressed through use of violence.
		The conversion of Europe is important in that it paves the way for a few centuries of religious uniformity, and as the Church was about the only place learning was preserved in Merovingian times, this was central in the maintenance of knowledge during the troubled years to follow.
		This instability and separation resulted in a decline in education and dissemination of the products of culture, which is evidenced by the multifarious forms of scripts and the bastardization of Latin language and grammar within many of the manuscripts of the time.
	homepage.mac.com /etherbob/projects/minuscule/The_Expression_of_Power.html (393 words)

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