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Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries, Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive

Understand handwriting’s role in the later Middle Ages as Europe was in the midst of the "paper revolution” and the quantity of documents was exploding.

In this course, you will learn:

Notarial cursive is a handwriting style that was used for such documents across most of Europe in the late Middle Ages.
Each letter's fundamental form, including variations and false positives
Abbreviations that are commonly used.
Marks for editing and navigation.