Writers and readers in medieval Italy
Subtitle: studies in the history of written culture
By: Armando Petrucci ; edited and translated by Charles M. Radding.
Contributors: Radding, Charles.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Books and reading -- Italy -- History.; Written communication -- Italy -- History.; Books -- Italy -- History -- 400-1400.; Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- History.
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 historians: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.