Writers and readers in medieval Italy : studies in the history of written culture / Armando Petrucci ; edited and translated by Charles M. Radding.

Main entry:

Petrucci, Armando, author.

Title & Author:

Writers and readers in medieval Italy : studies in the history of written culture / Armando Petrucci ; edited and translated by Charles M. Radding.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
©1995

Description:

xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the unitary book to the miscellany -- The Christian conception of the book in the sixth and seventh centuries -- The Lombard problem -- Book, handwriting, and school -- Literacy and graphic culture of early Medieval scribes -- Symbolic aspects of written evidence -- Reading in the Middle Ages -- Minute, autograph, author's book -- Reading and writing volgare in Medieval Italy -- The illusion of authentic history: documentary evidence.
A collection of previously published essays, translated into English from the original Italian.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In this fascinating book, one of the world's foremost authorities on writing and the social history of books discusses reading and writing in medieval Italy. Armando Petrucci addresses concerns central to paleographers and to cultural historians: how people learned to write, what they wrote, what they read, how scribes were trained, the purposes for which books were copied, and how ideas about books influenced their use, preservation, and transmission.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300060890
9780300060898

Subject:

Books and reading Italy History To 1500.
Books Italy History 400-1450.
Books History 400-1450.
Written communication Italy History To 1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy.
Written communication Italy History.
Books history 400-1400
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy History.
Livres Italie Histoire 400-1450.
Livres Histoire 400-1450.
Manuscrits médiévaux Italie.
Books.
Books and reading.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Written communication.
Boeken.
Leesgewoonten.
Schriftcultuur.
Books and reading Italy History.
Books Italy History 400-1400.
Italy
Written communication History

Form/genre:

History.
Annotations.

Added entries:

Radding, Charles M., editor, translator.
Radding, Charles.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91021
Call No.: ID Z1003.5.I8 P4; ID:95-B4979
Status: Available

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