Medieval Listening and Reading
Subtitle: The Primary Reception of German Literature 8001300
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9780521020886
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; Europe; European - German; German literature--Old High German, 750-1050-; German literature--Old High German, 750-1050--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism & Collections / German; European - General
First sentence: When Guillaume Fichet, a member of the Sorbonne, looked back in 1471 on the history of what we today should term communications technology he divided it into three periods: classical antiquity (which employed the calamus or reed pen), followed by a period which for us is the Middle Ages (which used the penna or quill pen), and then a period which had only just begun (characterised by aereae litterae or movable type).