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Title Textual cultures of medieval Italy / edited by William Robins.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : illustrations
text file
Note Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.
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"--Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents Introduction / William Robins -- Study of Medieval Italian textual cultures / William Robins -- Rhetoric and reform during the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Ronald Witt -- Adventures in textuality : lyric poetry, the tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / Christopher Kleinhenz -- Public textual cultures : a case study in southern Italy / Linda Safran -- Textualization of early Italian cantari / Maria Bendinelli Predelli -- Paulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum : written oaths and Ecclesiastical discipline in Carolingian Italy / Nicholas Everett -- Writing the vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / Luca Boschetto -- Death of Angela of Foligno and the genesis of the Liber Angelae / Dominique Poirel -- Editing legal texts from the late middle ages / Susanne Lepsius.
Language In English; occasional phrases in Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, and Hebrew with translations.
Subject Italian literature -- To 1400 -- Criticism, Textual.
Italian literature.
Chronological Term To 1400
Subject Criticism, Textual.
Transmission of texts -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
Transmission of texts.
Italy.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Italian literature -- To 1400 -- Criticism, Textual -- Congresses.
Transmission of texts -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Robins, William Randolph, 1964-
Conference on Editorial Problems (41st : 2005 : University of Toronto)
Other Form: Print version: 9781442642720 1442642726 (DLC) 2011456601
ISBN 1442694602 (electronic book)
9781442694606 (electronic book)
9781442642720
1442642726