Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568774
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521819053
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Palaeography (history of writing); Lombards; History: World; History - General History; Sociology; Italy; Europe - General; Literacy; History / Europe / General; History; Written communication
First sentence: In his Pragmatic Sanction of 554, the emperor Justinian decreed, among other things, that the state was to continue to provide, as it had under Theoderic the Ostrogoth, salaries for teachers of grammar, rhetoric, medicine and law, 'so that young men schooled in the liberal arts might flourish in the service of the state'.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series