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Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular

Author : Inger Larsson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular written by Inger Larsson and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in the 1350s, an event which established Swedish as the language of the judiciary and judicial records. From this period written documentation was gradually integrated into legal procedure. Pragmatic Literacy argues that the Crown, the expanding bureaucracy, the editing of the laws in Swedish, and the laws' demands for written documentation in everyday transactions were the main driving forces behind the development in medieval Sweden of lay literacy for practical purposes. The book demonstrates how the early use of writing by the royal administration and the writing of provincial laws in Swedish created centres of literacy from which literate ways of thinking and acting spread both geographically and socially. It further illustrates how literacy moved beyond the confines of the clerical elite, by exploring how different members of the laity adopted pragmatic literacy for private purposes. Pragmatic Literacy thus traces the history of pragmatic literacy in Sweden through the lens of the judicial and administrative archive. Inger Larsson is professor of Swedish Language at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, StockholmUniversity.

Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular

Author : Inger Larsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503560335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular written by Inger Larsson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in the 1350s, an event which established Swedish as the language of the judiciary and judicial records. From this period written documentation was gradually integrated into legal procedure. Pragmatic Literacy argues that the Crown, the expanding bureaucracy, the editing of the laws in Swedish, and the laws' demands for written documentation in everyday transactions were the main driving forces behind the development in medieval Sweden of lay literacy for practical purposes. The book demonstrates how the early use of writing by the royal administration and the writing of provincial laws in Swedish created "centres of literacy" from which literate ways of thinking and acting spread both geographically and socially. It further illustrates how literacy moved beyond the confines of the clerical elite, by exploring how different members of the laity adopted pragmatic literacy for private purposes. Pragmatic Literacy thus traces the history of pragmatic literacy in Sweden through the lens of the judicial and administrative archive. Inger Larsson is professor of Swedish Language at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, Stockholm University.

Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330

Author : R. H. Britnell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851156958
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Literacy, East and West, 1200-1330 written by R. H. Britnell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of the uses of literacy for the exercise of political and economic power, in Latin Christendom and the wider world.

Weber's Scorecard

Author : Edward C. Page
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198904282
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Weber's Scorecard written by Edward C. Page and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics

Author : Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140519068X
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics written by Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. Features 35 newly-written essays from internationally acclaimed experts that reflect the growth and vitality of the burgeoning area of historical sociolinguistics Examines how sociolinguistic theoretical models, methods, findings, and expertise can be used to reconstruct a language's past in order to explain linguistic changes and developments Bridges the gap between the past and the present in linguistic studies Structured thematically into sections exploring: origins and theoretical assumptions; methods for the sociolinguistic study of the history of languages; linguistic and extra-linguistic variables; historical dialectology, language contact and diffusion; and attitudes to language

From Memory to Written Record

Author : Michael T. Clanchy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118295986
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book From Memory to Written Record written by Michael T. Clanchy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work of scholarship, which traces the development of literacy in medieval England, is now fully updated in a third edition. This book serves as an introduction to medieval books and documents for graduate students throughout the world Features a completely re-written first chapter, ‘Memories and Myths of the Norman Conquest', and a new postscript by the author reflecting on the reception to the original publication and discussing recent scholarship on medieval literacy Includes a revised guide to further reading and a revision of the plates which illustrate medieval manuscripts in detail

Inventing Slavonic

Author : Mirela Ivanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198891504
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Slavonic written by Mirela Ivanova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this meticulously researched study, Mirela Ivanova offers a new critical history of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet. Showing how the alphabet was not invented once, but rather continually contested and redefined in the century following its creation, Ivanova challenges the prevalent nationalist historiography that has built up around it.

The Dala Law

Author : Inger Larsson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040226647
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Dala Law written by Inger Larsson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 – 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in medieval Dalar during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Contradicting older assumptions that this might have been an older law of Västmanland, the Dala Law is well adapted to prevailing conditions in medieval Dalarna Dalar. In contrast to most provincial laws where the lawman had a central position, in the Dala Law it is the written word, the law-book, that is addressed and appealed to. Although the text is comparatively short, this English translation is an important tool for facilitating the internationalisation of Swedish research and making Nordic material more accessible for international scholars. Aided by maps which show medieval Dalarna, Västmanland, and the value of the mining industry in the area, this text provides crucial insight into the history, life, and culture of medieval Dalar which has never been seen before in the English language. With an Introduction that places medieval Darlarna Dalar in its geographical, judicial and ecclesiastical contexts, The Dala Law is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in medieval Swedish history and law.

Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352376
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did people of the past prepare for death, and how were their preparations affected by religious beliefs or social and economic responsibilities? Dying Prepared in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe analyses the various ways in which people made preparations for death in medieval and early modern Northern Europe, adapting religious teachings to local circumstances. The articles span the period from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity allowing an analysis over centuries of religious change that are too often artificially separated in historical study. Contributors are Dominika Burdzy, Otfried Czaika, Kirsi Kanerva, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Riikka Miettinen, Bertil Nilsson, and Cindy Wood.

Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)

Author : Anna Dlabačová
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004520155
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600) written by Anna Dlabačová and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.

The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

Author : Clare A. Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131617509X
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature written by Clare A. Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the tremendous breadth of Anglo-Latin literature. Chapters on English learning and literature in the ninth century and the later formation of English poetry and prose also convey the profound cultural confidence of the period. Providing a discussion of essential texts, including Beowulf and the writings of Bede, this History captures the sheer inventiveness and vitality of early medieval literary culture through topics as diverse as the literature of English law, liturgical and devotional writing, the workings of science and the history of women's writing.

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521570398
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies written by Huw Pryce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.

The Meaning of Media

Author : Anna Catharina Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110695499
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Media written by Anna Catharina Horn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.

The Making of Medieval Sardinia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004467548
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Medieval Sardinia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies, the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy as well as the Sardinia’s early medieval churches, arts, architecture and archaeology. The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean. Contributors are Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Luciano Gallinari, Rossana Martorelli, Attilio Mastino, Alex Metcalfe, Marco Muresu, Michele Orrù, Andrea Pala, Giulio Paulis, Giovanni Strinna, Alberto Virdis, Maurizio Virdis, and Corrado Zedda.

Medieval Listening and Reading

Author : Dennis Howard Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521444934
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Listening and Reading written by Dennis Howard Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-25 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study brings recent scholarly debates on oral cultures and literate societies to bear on the earliest recorded literature in German (800-1300). It considers the criteria for assessing what works were destined for listeners, what examples anticipated readers, and how for both modes of reception could apply to one work, exploring the possible interplay between them. The opening chapters review previous scholarship and the introduction of writing into preliterate Germany. The core of the book presents lexical and non-lexical evidence for the different modes of reception, taken from the whole spectrum of genres, from dance songs to liturgy, from drama and heroic literature to the court narrative and lyric poetry. The social contexts of reception and the physical process of reading books are also considered. Two concluding chapters explore the literary and historical implications of the slow interpenetration of orality and literacy. There is a comprehensive bibliographical index of primary sources.

Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages

Author : Thomas W. Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1903153832
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages written by Thomas W. Smith and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : Medieval petitions and strategies of persuasion / Thomas W. Smith, Helen Killick -- Blood, brains and bay-windows : the use of English in fifteenth-century parliamentary petitions / Gwilyn Dodd -- Petitoners for royal pardon in fourteenth-century England / Helen Lacey -- The scribes of petitions in late-medieval England / Helen Killick -- Patterns of supplication and litigation strategies : petitioning the crown in the fourteenth century / Petitions of conflict : the bishop of Durham and forfeitures of war, 1317-1333 / Matthew Phillips -- A tale of two abbots : petitions for the recovery of churches in England by the abbots of Jedburgh and Arbroath in 1328 / Shelagh Sneddon -- 'By force and arms' : lay invasion, the writ "de vi laica amovenda" and the tensions of state and church in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Philippa M. Hoskin -- The papacy, petitioners and benefices in thirteenth-century England / Thomas W. Smith -- Playing the system : marriage litigation in the fourteenth century / Frederik Pedersen -- Killer clergy : how did clerics justify homicide in petitions to the Apostolic penitentary in the Late Middle Ages? / Kirsi Salonen.

Middle English

Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191537004
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Middle English written by Paul Strohm and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary 'companions,' these essays aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Although 'major authors' such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well. Analysis is devoted not only to self-sufficient works, but to the general conditions of textual production and reception. Contributors to this collection include some recognized and admired names, but also a good many newer faces: younger scholars whose groundbreaking research is just coming into full view, and whose perspectives will influence the terms of literary discussion in the decades to come. Encouraged to speculate, they have addressed topics that unsettle previous categories of investigation. Each is oriented toward the emergent, the unfinalized, the yet-to-be-done. Each essay stirs new questions and concludes with suggestions for further reading and investigation that will allow readers to extend their own research into the questions it has raised.