Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy : Essays from the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems / William Robins.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Robins, William, author.

Contributor:

Robins, William Randolph, 1964-

Conference Name:

Conference on Editorial Problems (41st : 2005 : University of Toronto)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian literature--To 1400--Criticism, Textual.

Italian literature.

Transmission of texts--Italy--History--To 1500.

Transmission of texts.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Italian literature--To 1400--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

Transmission of texts--Italy--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--Congresses.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / William Robins

The study of Medieval Italian textual cultures / William Robins

Rhetoric and reform during the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Ronald Witt

Adventures in textuality : lyric poetry, the tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / Christopher Kleinhenz

Public textual cultures : a case study in southern Italy / Linda Safran

The textualization of early Italian cantari / Maria Bendinelli Predelli

Paulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum : written oaths and Ecclesiastical discipline in Carolingian Italy / Nicholas Everett

Writing the vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / Luca Boschetto

The death of Angela of Foligno and the genesis of the Liber Angelae / Dominique Poirel

Editing legal texts from the late middle ages / Susanne Lepsius.

Notes:

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442694606

1442694602

OCLC:

923776101