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Caroline minuscule is a form of hand lettering developed in the Romanesque period, emerging from scriptoria under the patronage of Charlemagne and tracing its origins back to ancient Rome (Roma). The impetus was a reform effort to improve legibility, literacy, and a higher order of culture.
Caroline (or Carolingian) minuscule derived from Merovingian minuscule and Germanic minuscule as it spread throughout monasteries in continental Europe. Caroline lettering simplified using fewer flourishes and round letters.
'Minuscule' in this case refers to lower case (actually mixed case) letters that appeared in the seventh and eighth centuries. By the ninth century, scriptoria all but abandoned ligatures and extreme flourishes, standardizing on Caroline minuscule, although the British Isles didn't adopt the minuscule script until the tenth century.
Uncial, combined with minuscule and a return to classical majuscule lettering, laid the foundation for modern book typography and formal page layout, with different script faces and weights used for titles, headings, body, numbering, and notes.
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