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Medieval reading : grammar, rhetoric and the classical text / Suzanne Reynolds.
LIBRA PA2061.R48 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Reynolds, Suzanne.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 27.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin philology--Study and teaching--Europe--History.
- Latin philology.
- Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Latin language--Grammar--Study and teaching--History.
- Latin language.
- Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Latin literature--Appreciation--Europe.
- Latin literature.
- Latin literature--Appreciation.
- Literacy.
- Books and reading.
- Latin language--Grammar--Study and teaching.
- Latin language--Grammar.
- Latin philology--Study and teaching.
- Europe.
- Books and reading--Europe--History.
- Literacy--Europe--History.
- Education, Medieval.
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Middle Ages.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped by the demands of acquiring Latin literacy through the arts of grammar and rhetoric. The resolutely literal readings of Latin texts found in these educational and institutional contexts call for a reassessment of the relationship of Latin and vernacular discourses in medieval culture, and of some central notions in medieval hermeneutics, notably allegory and authorial intention.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., Cambridge University).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0521472571
- OCLC:
- 33041971
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