Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages: A Conjunction and its Consequences
Mark Chinca|Christopher Young
“The most important part of the title this book is word ‘and’.” These words form memorable conclusion to D.H. Green’s study Medieval Listening and Reading, they encapsulate how, in Middle Ages, orality literacy are not be considered as two separate largely unrelated cultures or modes textual transmission, but elements a mutual interplay interpenetration. In volume, scholars from Britain, Germany North America follow insistence on conjunction medieval literacy, show how approach can open up new areas for investigation well help reformulate old problems. The languages literatures covered include English, Latin, French, Occitan German, essays span whole period early Ages through fifteenth century.
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