Rosamond McKitterick (ed.)

The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe

Herausgeber: Mckitterick, Rosamond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early medieval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, it uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early medieval societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780521428965
• ISBN-10: 0521428963
• Artikelnr.: 22004321

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction Rosamond McKitterick
1. Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh Jane Stevenson
2. Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word Susan Kelly
3. Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul Ian Wood
4. Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages Thomas F. X. Noble
5. Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain Roger Collins
6. Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy Stefan C. Reif
7. Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium Margaret Mullet
8. Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century John Mitchell
9. Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes
10. Literacy in Carolingian government Janet L. Nelson
11. Text and image in the Carolingian world Rosamond McKitterick
Conclusion Rosamond McKitterick
Index.