Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

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Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

Name: Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text
ISBN: 9780521604529

Suzanne Reynolds

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This book investigates how people learned to read in the Middle Ages. It uses glosses--medieval teachers' notes--on classical Latin texts to show how these complex works were used in a very basic and literal way in the classroom, and argues that this has profound implications for our understanding of medieval literacy and hermeneutics. Suzanne Reynolds discusses issues including the relationship of Latin and vernacular languages, the role of classical texts in medieval culture, ideas of allegory in the Middle Ages, and medieval literary theory.

Categories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Year:

1996

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

256

ISBN 10:

0521604524