Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442642726 ISBN 13 : 9781442642720

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2011

Synopsis

Medieval Italy presented a rich array of discrete textual cultures, many of them specific to particular regions, professions, or groups of writers and readers. The essays in this collection consider how distinct habits of writing took root among specific communities in Italy between the early Middle Ages and the eve of the Renaissance.In examining how ideological concerns helped give shape to strategies of writing and how forms of communication influenced cultural developments, these case studies assess a wide range of texts, including legal treatises, saintly biographies, rhetorical handbooks, and vernacular poetry. As a whole, the collection makes the case for combining abstract analyses such as textual theory and intellectual history with more technical specialties such as editing and codicology. Rather than approaching pre-modern Italian textuality as something uniform, Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy engages with its fascinating plurality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Robins is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442642726
• ISBN 13: 9781442642720
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Robins William
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