Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from Sixth Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A D: The Lyell Lectures

Stanley Morison (ed. and completed by Nicolas Barker)

ISBN 10: 0198181469 / ISBN 13: 9780198181460

Published by Clarendon Press, Oxford/Sandpiper Books, 2000

About this Item

Dust jacket. Reprint first published 1972 based on author's Lyell Lectures delivered at Oxford University in 1957 by the Lyell Reader in Bibliography A study of symbols intended to convey meanings. Illustrations. 361 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £13.55 as book nearly one kilo weight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Politics and Script: Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from Sixth Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A D: The Lyell Lectures
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford/Sandpiper Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198181469
• ISBN 13: 9780198181460
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1956-57, these papers argue that the script was the result of changes in the religious or political environment and was due to the friction between the Church and the State and between east and West Christendom.