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Carolingian Minuscule 

Carolingian Minuscule 

Circa Holy Roman Empire 
between ninth 
and thirteenth century 
after common era

(approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD)
benchmark year 780 bracketed 
Benedictine monks 
of Corbie Abbey 
devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee

vis a vis European 
calligraphic standard script inked lined
writ via extant Irish and English monastic
members nsync 
strong influence of Irish literati

eased communication 
popular Latin cognoscenti
common lingua franca 
spawned  Carolingian Renaissance
 
Codices, pagan and Christian text 
plus educational material 
written viz Carolingian minuscule  
Emperor Charlemagne issued prescription
 
(hence named Carolingian) 
boosted unified modus operandi
he advocated learning, 
though somewhat illiterate

recognized value of education
predicated on singular 
codified regional alphabet,
the then webbed wide world
linkedin, sans uniform symbolic shapes

uncontested salient advantage
offered up ease to master 
clear distinct explicit letter formation
simple logic boosted 

rapidly transmitted standardization,
especially with exceptional legible 
readable characteristic
adequate spaces between words

Merovingian "chancery hand"
reserved to draft traditional charters 
Gothic and Anglo Saxon
favored traditional local script
as opposed to Latin
learning latter involved less tricked out 
embellished flourishes

or interconnected strokes
drawn by a scribe
allowing, enabling, and providing
greater popularity to teach masses,

latent etymological nuances apparent
centuries following implementation  
quasi initial Carolingian letters
steadfast, where Carolingian 

influence moats strong
adopted local stylistic signature flavor 
divergence woke since proliferation
stoking diffuse prospects

decreeing entrenched footing, 
where auspices boded prescient
until groundswell didst surcease
sub limb mated into modern patois.

 

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