num_pages: 272
description: In this fascinating book, one of the world's foremost authorities on writing and the social history of books discusses reading and writing in medieval Italy. Armando Petrucci addresses concerns central to paleographers and to cultural how people learned to write, what they wrote, what they read, how scribes were trained, the purposes for which books were copied, and how ideas about books influenced their use, preservation, and transmission.
language: English
title: Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture
titlecomplete: Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Yale University Press