The Carolingian period
Bernhard Bischoff|Daibhm O. Cróinin|David Ganz
By and large, it is only in the carolingian period that what we now possess of literary legacy Roman antiquity Latin patristic age was first preserved. This nourished education learning middle ages, which large measure dominated by ancient authorities, until influx translations twelfth thirteenth centuries resulted a new orientation. Work with these texts closely bound up production indeed part production. Because history manuscripts medieval begins this securing heritage, I would like to preface section few remarks on how were used ages. Liturgical manuscripts, virtue their purpose, truly functional books, lectionaries often supplied at later date introductory closing formulae, while divisions into lections added homiliaries passionals. Chapter numbers occasionally instructions for lectio continua are bibles centuries. Collations, marginal notes readers, ‘nota’ signs, underlinings stylus or red chalk found nearly everywhere. Now again such traces clear symptoms textual reworking, as occurred innumerable canonistic, dogmatic, exegetical, ethical compilations florilegia.
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