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Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Book 27

LatinLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521472571
ISBN13: 9780521472579
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 22 1996
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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