Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley

Tentative Schedule

16 September – Welcome

1.     Overview of paleographical and codicological terms

2.     Discuss plan for the semester

23 September – (330 Wheeler) Latin script in antiquity

                                    1. Uncial, Half-Uncial, etc.

30 September – Early Insular scripts (s. vii-xi !!)

1.     Review of Latin handwriting in Ireland

2.     Review of Anglo-Saxon minuscule

7 October – Visigothic (Mozarabic) script and Sinai script to Francia and Italy (s. vii-viii)

1.     Visigothic and Sinai script

2.     Minuscule in Francia and Italy

14 October – (330 Wheeler) Beneventan script to Caroline minuscule (s. ix)

21 October – Development of handwriting from s. x-xii

28 October – Gothic textura - Belgium and France to Germany and England (s. xi-xv)

4 November – (330 Wheeler) Gothic cursive and Bastarda (s. xi-xv)

11 November – Documentary hands – Italy, Rome, Papal documents

18 November – Documentary hands – France and Anglo-Norman

25 November – Secretary and Anglicana (s. xiv-xv)

2 December – (330 Wheeler) Humanist script – Italy

9 December – Catch up, probably with some wine