Writing the early Medieval West : studies in honour of Rosamond McKitterick /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Screen, Elina (Editor ), West, Charles, 1979- (Editor ), McKitterick, Rosamond (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Temas:
To 1500
Written communication > Europe > History > To 1500.
Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Historiography > Europe > History > To 1500.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Savoir et érudition > Europe > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Manuscrits médiévaux.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Historiography.
Learning and scholarship > Medieval.
Written communication.
Europe > History > 392-814.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
Europe > History > 392-814 > Sources.
Europe > History > 476-1492 > Sources.
Europe > Histoire > 392-814.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492.
Europe > Histoire > 392-814 > Sources.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492 > Sources.
Europe.
Sources.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a study in the education of a society? / Marios Costambeys and Matthew Innes
  • Knowledge of the Past: Flavius Josephus: the most influential classical historian of the early Middle Ages / Richard Matthew Pollar
  • Bede and the changing image of Rome and the Romans / Paul Hilliard
  • Paul the Deacon and Rome / Marios Costambeys
  • History and (selective) memory: articulating community and division in Folcuin's Gesta abbatum Lobiensium / Ingrid Rembold
  • Appropriate to the religion of their time: Walahfrid's historicisation of the liturgy / Christina Possel
  • The order of history: liturgical time and the rhythms of the past in Amalarius of Metz's De ordine Antiphonarii / Graeme Ward
  • The Written Word in Early Medieval Europe: The View from the Manuscripts. The manuscript evidence for pharmacy in the early Middle Ages / Nicholas Everett
  • Monte Cassino's network of knowledge: the earliest manuscript evidence / Sven Meeder
  • Strategies of knowledge organisation in early medieval Latin glossary miscellanies: the example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 / Anna Dorofeeva
  • 'Dissonance of speech, consonance of meaning': the 862 Council of Aachen and the transmission of Carolingian conciliar records / Charles West
  • Texts and Early Medieval Rulers. The Moorish kingdoms and the written word: three 'textual communities' in fifth- and sixth-century Mauretania / Andy Merrills
  • When liturgy gets out of hand / Yitzhak Hen;
  • The formation of a European identity: revisiting Charlemagne's coinage / Simon Coupland
  • Queenship in dispute: Fastrada, history and law / Matthew Innes
  • Remembering and forgetting Lothar I / Elina Screen.

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