Mediators of the authoritative text. The spoken word, the significant gesture, the written text, and the oral exposition of the written text. Living with the authoritative text. Word and text at the margins of culture. Penetration of the culture of the written word into geographical and social milieux removed, and even alienated, from the dominant oligarchies and central regions of the Mediterranean world.
Readings here can range the most widely.
The view from the scriptorium.