Sentences with phrase «medieval scribes»

«Trend Watch: Future Pro Athletes Signing Faux Contracts With Family Members Main Are Court Reporters «Medieval Scribes» Headed for Extinction?»

As I noted in June 2011, an article in the Austin Statesman took a look at the subject and wondered if the job of court reporter was starting to resemble a «system of medieval scribes» that might not be long for this world.

Medieval scribes frothed up eggs with water and added colors to produce elaborate illuminated manuscripts.

Digital technologies have enabled a massive increase in writing, much of it for public consumption — which, lest we forget, used to be the domain of professionals, from medieval scribes to Victorian novelists to science journalists.

Neither cause and effect nor even a strict sense of chronology hindered the medieval scribe when he set out to construct a new text.

Neurological condition probably caused medieval scribe's shaky handwriting.

At a time when analogue newspapers are facing extinction, Manley acts like a Medieval scribe oblivious to digitization, insistent on a laborious, manual writing process.

Not exact matches

Whilst comic strips authors largely worked alone or from home, collaborating with others often through the post, the studios where animation films were made were not unlike medieval scriptoria, where authorial work was carried out collectively and the auctor / scribes / artists worked together on individual desks.

In a 1926 book entitled «Travel and Travellers in the Middle Ages,» British scholar Arthur P. Newton asserted that the fabricated marvels of the 14th century travel scribe John de Mandeville were themselves a product of contemporary assumptions and desires: «Marvels such as [his] were the common stock in trade of popular medieval writers on geography, and ridiculous though they may be, they should not entirely be neglected in attempting to realize something of the attitude of mind of travelers of the time, half - critical and half credulous, but not wholly different from that of a later age.»

Bored scribes who spent long hours copying out medieval manuscripts by hand got creative satisfaction from the imaginative paintings they added alongside them.