Wendy Scase’s new monograph Visible English: Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550, supported by her Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, has just been published by Brepols! Visible English offers new insights on experiences of writing and reading English in communities ranging from those first in contact with Latin literacy to those in the Early Modern period where print was an alternative to manuscript. Discussing a broad range of materials from so-called ‘pen-trials’ and graffiti to key literary manuscripts, Visible English provides new perspectives on the ways that the alphabet was understood, on genres such as alphabet poems, riddles, and scribal signatures, and on the different ways in which scribes copied English texts. Its five thematic chapters each treat an aspect of writing practice in relation to literacy pedagogy: ‘Graphs, Alphabets, and Scripts’, ‘Graphic Models’, ‘Graphic Play’, ‘Graphic Display’, and ‘Reprographics’. Generously illustrated, it is available in hardback and as an e-book. https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503598420-1
