Writing the Early Medieval West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316648162)

Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting the field on a new footing. Concentrating on the role of writing in mediating early medieval knowledge of the past, on the importance of surviving manuscripts as clues to the circulation of ideas and political and cultural creativity, and on the role that texts of different kinds played both in supporting and in subverting established power relations, these essays represent a milestone in studies of the early medieval written word.

Author: Elina Screen
ISBN-10: 1316648168
ISBN-13: 9781316648162
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2020
Pages: 331
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d