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Writers And Readers In Medieval Italy : Studies In The History Of Written Culture

Attribution
Armando Petrucci ; edited and translated by Charles M. Radding
Publication Details
Book, Yale University Press, 1995
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.5.I8 P48 1995 AVAILABLE
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Description
In this fascinating book, one of the world`s foremost authorities on writing and the social history of books discusses reading and writing in medieval Italy. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Authors
- Petrucci, Armando
- Radding, Charles
Subject
Places in this work
- Italy
Notes
- In this fascinating book, one of the world’s foremost authorities on writing and the social history of books discusses reading and writing in medieval Italy. Armando Petrucci addresses concerns central to paleographers and to cultural historians: how people learned to write, what they wrote, what they read, how scribes were trained, the purposes for which books were copied, and how ideas about books influenced their use, preservation, and transmission
Contents
- 1. From the Unitary Book to the Miscellany
- 2. The Christian Conception of the Book in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
- 3. The Lombard Problem
- 4. Book, Handwriting, and School
- 5. Literacy and Graphic Culture of Early Medieval Scribes
- 6. Symbolic Aspects of Written Evidence
- 7. Reading in the Middle Ages
- 8. Minute, Autograph, Author’s Book
- 9. Reading and Writing Volgare in Medieval Italy
- 10. The Illusion of Authentic History: Documentary Evidence
ISBN
- 0300060890
LCCN
- 94041633
Open Library ID
- /b/OL1115598M