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Author:   G.W.G. Montgomery ,  Arthur F. Dimmock ,  C.R. White
Publisher:   Scottish Workshop Publications
Imprint:   Scottish Workshop Publications
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781873577349

ISBN 10:   1873577346
Pages:   137
Publication Date:   27 December 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Illustrations...ii Foreword...iv Acknowledgements...v The Venerable Legacy...1 Prologuc: the Twilight of the Gods...1 Language, Race and Identity...2 The Language of Eden...3 Bede the Self-Effacing...4 Time and Tide; History and Heresy...8 Language for All...11 Speech, Song and Miracles...13 Dumbness and Devils...14 Letters and Digits, Language and Number...18 Of Counting or Speaking with the Fingers by St Bede...20 Graevius Version...21 Dimmock Translation...25 Antecedents of Bede's Manual Language...29 The Manual Wisdom of the Ancients...30 Roman Finger Reckoning in the British Isles...31 Celtic Ogham and Nordic Runic Scripts...34 Auditory, Visual and Gestural Communication by Sets...35 The Druid Heritage and Celtic Learning...38 Imbas Forosnai: The Art of Manual Enlightenment...41 Codes, Ciphers and Magic Numbers...45 Profitable Prediction and Things Hebdomadal...47 Christian Numerology...49 Reading the Runes...52 The Numerological Structure of Ogham...55 Ogham and the Pictish Connection...59 Ogham as a Finger Alphabet...61 The Dispersion of Bede's Ideas and the Education of Deaf People...73 Italy and the Benedictine Grapevine...74 The Spanish Pioneers...75 The German Mathematical Aufklarung...80 The French Connection and Internationalisation...82 Venerable Vestiges: Traces of Bede's Manual Alphanumerics in Modern Systems...85 The Evidence from Comparative Chirology...85 Calculation: Computare v Numerare...88 Fingers, Number and Language...89 Manual Ability in Children Today...90 Manual Communication...101 Epilogue...107 Bibliography...108 Appendix I Ludus Calculorum: Hands, Numbers and Board Games...112 Appendix II Comparing Visual Sequencing in Space and Time...114 Appendix III Religion and the Persistent Eight...116 Appendix IV Code Keys (Roger Bacon, Bishop Graves)...119 Appendix V The Language of Palmistry...120 Appendix VI The Church and Ruins of the Monastery of St Paul, Jarrow...122 Index...134

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