Textual cultures of medieval Italy
By: edited by William Robins
Contributors: Conference on Editorial Problems (41st : 2005 : University of Toronto)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781442642720
Subjects: Texttradering; Italian literature; Medeltida handskrifter; Transmission de textes; Congrès; Manuscrits médiévaux; Littérature italienne; Textual Criticism; Transmission of texts; Konferenser; Textkritik; Medieval Manuscripts; Histoire; Italiensk litteratur; Historia; Congresses; History; Critique textuelle
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes some text in Italian and Latin.
Table of contents: title: The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures / by William Robins; title: PART I: Forms of Textual Exchange Rhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / by Ronald Witt; title: Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / by Christopher Kleinhenz; title: PART II: Materials of Textual Communication; title: Public Textual Cultures: A Case Study in Southern Italy / by Linda Safran; title: The Textualization of Early Italian Cantari / by Maria Bendinelli Predelli; title: PART III: Administrative Textual Cultures; title: Paulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum: Written Oaths and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Carolingian Italy / by Nicholas Everett; title: Writing the Vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / by Luca Boschetto; title: PART IV: Collaborative Textual Cultures; title: The Death of Angela of Foligno and the Genesis of the Liber Angelae / by Dominique Poirel; title: Editing Legal Texts from the Late Middle Ages / by Susanne Lepsius