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http://chronicle.com/free/2001/08/2001083001u.htm

An Online Course Teaches Students to Read Documents Written in Archaic Scripts
By BROCK READ

Title: "English Language Paleography"
Institution: Brigham Young University
Instructor: Vona Williams, a researcher and reference consultant at the Family History Library of the Mormon Church. The university's history department has authorized her to teach the course.
Course content: The course offers basic training in English handwriting from the late 15th through the late 17th centuries. Students learn how to read old English alphabets and decode terms and abbreviations; they are also taught to use antique documents as historical tools....

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