The Making of Textual Culture

Download or read book The Making of Textual Culture written by Martin Irvine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the cultural role of grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, and literature in early medieval society. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture--literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, Biblical interpretation, linguistic thought--in order to reveal the more far-reaching social effects of grammatica in medieval culture. The book is based on new and previously neglected sources, many of which have been edited from medieval manuscripts for the first time.