Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
The Gothic handwriting has its own characteristics and typical aspects, and it dominated European handwriting art between the 12th and the 16th centuries. During the 15th and 16th centuries, it developed some particular and decaying variations until it was replaced by Humanistic handwriting.
To understand Gothic handwriting, it is necessary to return to the Roman period, the beginning of the Middle Ages, the Carolingian period, and the emergence of Gothic handwriting in northeastern France.
The use of Gothic handwriting became common in almost all of Europe, but with some peculiar variations in different regions. These variations also changed over history, leading to the decadent forms that eventually led to the substitution of Gothic handwriting by Humanistic handwriting as a natural Renaissance reaction against medieval culture.
