
Charlemagne's Renaissance
Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World
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The Handwriting of Ancient Rome
The handwriting of ancient Rome began to deteriorate when Rome started to go through its transformation in the imperial system. And so punctuation begins to be brought in and a very careful handwriting, a slower handwriting with basically lined paper called Carolingian minuscule takes place. So you can look at what is chicken scratch or a spider web crawling across a page in the year six hundred by the year eight hundred. It looks as if it's printed. That's how regular it is.
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