Title: Writers and readers in medieval Italy
Subtitle: studies in the history of written culture
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: History, Books and reading, Medieval Manuscripts, Books, Written communication, Books and reading, history, Books, history, Manuscripts, Boeken, Leesgewoonten, Schriftcultuur
Places: Italy
Time periods: 400-1400
LC classification: Z1003.5.I8 P48 1995