How Long to Read Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes

How Long Does it Take to Read Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes by M.B. Parkes

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The following five, based on the author's Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford, then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.

How long is Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes?

Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes by M.B. Parkes is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes aloud.

What Reading Level is Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes?

Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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