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England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: 620 (Variorum Collected Studies) - Hardcover

Thomson, Rodney M.

 
9780860786733: England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: 620 (Variorum Collected Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0860786730 ISBN 13: 9780860786733
Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.

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Rodney M. Thomson, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0860786730
ISBN 13 
9780860786733
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
360