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Entry: Book Production in the Carolingian Period - A21618759
Author: Elentari - U202814

Not the most fascinating subject in the world, but I still found it quite interesting.

As did I, some delightful bedtime reading Thoroughly interesting and well written, thank you. Saw a rogue curly apostrophe, but that was it. Nice one

Cheers Matt! I'll try and find the apostrophes now.

I don't really know much about this, but I know that some parchment/vellum skins were re-used by scraping them clean of ink, since good sheets of the stuff was hard/expensive to come by. How common was this? I believe in the period just after the fall of the Roman Empire it was especially hard to get hold of good-quality parchment.

Nice one, Elentari. Not too sure, but maybe you copuld mention somewhere that the copying of religioous texts by monks was the central theme in Umberto Eco's novel 'The name of the Rose'. Oh, and a friend posted me the link to a link another friend had posted, thought I would share it with you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alaba...ead=3431427&post=45674498#p45674498

Very well-written, Elentari. I enjoyed reading this.

The only thing I think it needs is a lead-in to say what book production was like before this period, and a lead-out to say what ended the period.

Icy

Good grief, I should have previewed.
Just as well that the link doesn't work, as it's the wrong one anyway.
here's the link I intended to post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyjRj3UMRM

Well written and an enjoyable read.

In the introduction you could specify what area of Europe you're talking about - did the renaissance limit itself to the Frankish empire, or did it affect Europe more generally? You could also mention what parts of modern Europe the Frankish empire consisted of (like in the Lothar II Entry).

I'll get onto those points later, thanks everyone. I'm supposed to be revising now.

Bel - thanks for the link, I really enjoyed that! I'm not sure about mentioning the book, since it's set a few centuries later, what do people think?

Ok, I think I've done all that.

Can you explain the Carlingian Empire in the main text, rather than a footnote? It's very important to the entry, and most readers, like me, won't have ever heard of it before.

It's a straightforward Entry, and I think it should become part of the Guide.

Some nitpicking:

fourth century AD --> 4th Century AD

labourously --> laboriously

Header: Types of books -- make the B into a capital

One example, from about 813 AD has a rather -- add a comma after AD

There are also cases of books being stolen -- this sounds odd because a case of books is a collection. Can you phrase it differently?

Lupus of Ferrières, a monk whose letters have survived, mentions in one letter his reluctance -- I don't think you need "in one letter" when you've already mentioned the letters earlier in the sentence.

until the middle ages -- should there be capital letters on "Middle Ages"?

G

Skanky, G, changes made.

This is a joy to read and really interesting - thank you.

Thanks so much, Fizzy!

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