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Kingdom of Charlemagne (Age of Charlemagne) Civil Tier 12

Carolingian Minuscule

The value that Charlemagne placed on education and literacy cannot be overstated. He enacted many sweeping reforms in order to achieve his aim of bettering education, including the development of a standardised 'miniscule' script, or handwriting, that he intended would be fully recognisable right across Europe. It was based on the Roman 'uncial' and 'cursive' scripts, that were then further developed to be very rigid and unchanging, and therefore extremely neat and highly legible. The development of this handwriting introduced many font conventions that are considered standard today - word spacing, capitalisation, etc. Although Charlemagne himself was unable to write (though he tried to learn), his miniscule script was, in many ways, the first real style guide in the western world.

Node Set Civil Tier 12

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