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Title

Textual cultures of medieval Italy / edited by William Robins.

ISBN

9781442642720

1442642726

Published

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2011.

Physical Description

xvi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Includes some text in Italian and Latin.

Summary

"Medieval Italy presented a rich array of discrete textual cultures, many of them specific to particular regions, professions, or groups of writers and readers. The essays in this collection consider how distinct habits of writing took root among specific communities in Italy between the early Middle Ages and the eve of the Renaissance.

In examining how ideological concerns helped give shape to strategies of writing and how forms of communication influenced cultural developments, these case studies assess a wide range of texts, including legal treatises, saintly biographies, rhetorical handbooks, and vernacular poetry. As a whole, the collection makes the case for combining abstract analyses such as textual theory and intellectual history with more technical specialties such as editing and codicology. Rather than approaching pre-modern Italian textuality as something uniform, Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy engages with its fascinating plurality."--BOOK JACKET.

Format

Books

Language

English; Italian; Latin

Added to Catalog

July 12, 2011

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures / by William Robins

PART I: Forms of Textual Exchange Rhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / by Ronald Witt

Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / by Christopher Kleinhenz