| Series |
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Contents |
The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures / by William Robins -- PART I: Forms of Textual Exchange Rhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / by Ronald Witt -- Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / by Christopher Kleinhenz -- PART II: Materials of Textual Communication -- Public Textual Cultures: A Case Study in Southern Italy / by Linda Safran -- The Textualization of Early Italian Cantari / by Maria Bendinelli Predelli -- PART III: Administrative Textual Cultures -- Paulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum: Written Oaths and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Carolingian Italy / by Nicholas Everett -- Writing the Vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / by Luca Boschetto -- PART IV: Collaborative Textual Cultures -- The Death of Angela of Foligno and the Genesis of the Liber Angelae / by Dominique Poirel -- Editing Legal Texts from the Late Middle Ages / by Susanne Lepsius. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Summary |
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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| General note | Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005. |
| General note | Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Other forms | Also available in print. |
| Other forms | Also available in print version. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language | Includes some text in Italian and Latin. |
| Issued in other form | Print version 9781442642720 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781442694606 (electronic bk.) |
