The Uses of literacy in early medieval Europe 9780511097287, 9780521428965, 9780521344098
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English Pages [361] Year 1990
Table of contents :
Frontmatter
List of illustrations (page vii)
Contributors (page ix)
Preface (page xi)
Abbreviations (page xii)
Introduction (Rosamond McKitterick, page 1)
1 Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh (Jane Stevenson, page 11)
2 Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word (Susan Kelly, page 36)
3 Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul (Ian Wood, page 63)
4 Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages (Thomas F. X. Noble, page 82)
5 Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain (Roger Collins, page 109)
6 Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy (Stefan C. Reif, page 134)
7 Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium (Margaret Mullett, page 156)
8 Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century (John Mitchell, page 186)
9 Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Keynes, page 226)
10 Literacy in Carolingian government (Janet L. Nelson, page 258)
11 Text and image in the Carolingian world (Rosamond McKitterick, page 297)
Conclusion (Rosamond McKitterick, page 319)
Index (page 334)
Frontmatter
List of illustrations (page vii)
Contributors (page ix)
Preface (page xi)
Abbreviations (page xii)
Introduction (Rosamond McKitterick, page 1)
1 Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh (Jane Stevenson, page 11)
2 Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word (Susan Kelly, page 36)
3 Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul (Ian Wood, page 63)
4 Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages (Thomas F. X. Noble, page 82)
5 Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain (Roger Collins, page 109)
6 Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy (Stefan C. Reif, page 134)
7 Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium (Margaret Mullett, page 156)
8 Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century (John Mitchell, page 186)
9 Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England (Simon Keynes, page 226)
10 Literacy in Carolingian government (Janet L. Nelson, page 258)
11 Text and image in the Carolingian world (Rosamond McKitterick, page 297)
Conclusion (Rosamond McKitterick, page 319)
Index (page 334)
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