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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm reading a book on western/latin alphabet calligraphy and it has a page on Carolingian. I've been there, where the monk Alquin of York made this!! I've been to Charlemagne's Scriptorium in Aix le Chapelle.

Imma practice this one , it's kind of exciting to have that personal connection with history, even if it's just being there in the rooms 1200 years later to see where it happened.

https://smarthistory.org/carolingian-art-an-introduction/