InsaneJournal

Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	beatles: across the universe
Entry tags:	calligraphy, luxeuil, school project

My part of the current 711 class


Luxeuil was a French monastery founded in the v. late 6th century. They were pretty masochistic, even for monks. (work till you collapse, eat nothing but bark, etc.) Their script was very flowy and pretty. It was also fairly obnoxious to read, as the words all ran together. They also didn't believe in punctuation, and wrote with tiny, tiny nibs. (or feathers. Whatever.)

People in their own time period complained about their script.

I got to do the "project" part this weekend. The introductory paragraph of "the Caucus Race" from "Alice in Wonderland", with part of "The Mouse's Tail" as marginalia. Still need to write my part of the paper.

The picture is all fuzzy. :(