Events Tagged: "writing"

Phoenician alphabet spreads - simplified 22-letter system replaces complex scripts, ancestor of modern alphabets

Belshazzar's feast - mysterious hand writes on wall, Daniel interprets 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin' - kingdom divided

Augustine begins anti-Manichaean writings - produces multiple works refuting dualism, defends goodness of creation

Bede completes Ecclesiastical History - first great history of English people, written at Jarrow monastery

Alcuin develops Caroline minuscule - clear lowercase script revolutionizes writing, basis of modern type

Hildegard of Bingen writes medical texts - Physica and Causae et Curae, holistic healing

Marco Polo dictates travels to Rustichello - fellow prisoner writes 'Il Milione' (The Travels of Marco Polo) in French

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'