In the opera, the librettist Eugène Scribe added a historical twist by replacing Hus and Jerome with the Jewish characters Éléazar and Rachel, who are victims of Catholic aggressors, and using a Jewish-Christian romance as the catalyst for a gruesome auto-da-fé.
The libretto is a collaboration of historical documents read by a narrator, the Scribe, and sung texts in biblical Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian taken from such sources as the "Egyptian Book of the Dead" and Akhnaten's own writings.
Scribe is also remembered for such historical plays as Le Verre d'eau (1840; "The Glass of Water"), which derives great historical events from a trivial incident, and Bertrand et Raton (1833), a historical comedy.
These belonged to a common Germanic alliterative tradition, but all were first recorded by Christian scribes at dates later than the historical events they relate, and the pagan elements they contain were fused with Christian thought and feeling.
Thorpe & Alty combine historical analysis with the first neurological study of the scribe's handwriting.
Columbia neurologist Melodie Winawer talks about her debut novel, "The Scribe of Siena," and the parallels between science and writing historical fiction.
In Imperialism and Its Contradictions, Victor Kiernan's eight essays on various facets of imperialism are compiled and introduced by Harvey Kaye, the unofficial scribe and club historian for the British Marxist school of historical studies.
It is possible that Hun was a historical figure, whose name was run together with Beonna's by a scribe.
Writer-director Writer-director Beatty portrait of leftie scribe John Reed and his paramour Bryant is equal parts sweeping historical epic, tragic romance, and paean to the once influential voices of early American socialism.
Unfortunately, though, in one important way the historical facts do not accord with the romantic image of ragged scribes in a lonely struggle to preserve Christian culture from the forces of darkness.
In the European Middle Ages, before the invention of printing, theological, historical, and literary works were copied in regular "book hands" by professional scribes who were monks.
