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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      22 August 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511470356
      9780521472579
      9780521604529
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470356
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.575kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (27)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (27)
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    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language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped by the demands of acquiring Latin literacy through the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.

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    ‘ … a thought-provoking and erudite work to be warmly welcomed and thoroughly recommended’.

    Source: The Review of English Studies

    ‘This is an original, stimulating book which will be useful to all scholars working on reading and literacy in the Middle Ages.’

    Source: Peritia

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