8 events with tag "writing"
1050 BC
ID: 3644
Phoenician alphabet spreads - simplified 22-letter system replaces complex scripts, ancestor of modern alphabets
ID: 3644
539 BC
ID: 2782
Belshazzar's feast - mysterious hand writes on wall, Daniel interprets 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin' - kingdom divided
ID: 2782
388
ID: 5066
Augustine begins anti-Manichaean writings - produces multiple works refuting dualism, defends goodness of creation
ID: 5066
731
ID: 2620
Bede completes Ecclesiastical History - first great history of English people, written at Jarrow monastery
ID: 2620
785
ID: 4082
Alcuin develops Caroline minuscule - clear lowercase script revolutionizes writing, basis of modern type
ID: 4082
1150
ID: 220
Hildegard of Bingen writes medical texts - Physica and Causae et Curae, holistic healing
ID: 220
1298
ID: 5088
Marco Polo dictates travels to Rustichello - fellow prisoner writes 'Il Milione' (The Travels of Marco Polo) in French
ID: 5088
1375
ID: 3584
St. Catherine: Miraculously learns to write (previously illiterate) - Christ: 'I am He who is, you are she who is not' - Begins dictating 'Dialogue' - Christ on mercy: 'My mercy is incomparably greater than all the sins anyone could commit'
ID: 3584