Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages: Essays on a Conjunction and its Consequences in Honour of D. H. Green

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“The most important part of the title of this book is the word ‘and’.” These words form the memorable conclusion to D.H. Green’s study Medieval Listening and Reading, they encapsulate how, in the Middle Ages, orality and literacy are not to be considered as two separate and largely unrelated cultures or modes of textual transmission, but as elements in a mutual interplay and interpenetration. In this volume, scholars from Britain, Germany and North America follow Green’s insistence on the conjunction of medieval orality and literacy, and show how this approach can open up new areas for investigation as well as help to reformulate old problems. The languages and literatures covered include English, Latin, French, Occitan and German, and the essays span the whole of the period from the early Middle Ages through to the fifteenth century. Front matter (“Contents”, “Abbreviations”), p. i Free Access Orality and Literacy in the Middle Ages: A Conjunction and its Consequences, p. 1 Mark Chinca, Christopher Young https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4245 Listening to the Scenes of Reading: King Alfred’s Talking Prefaces, p. 17 Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4246 Rituale, Feste, Sprechhandlungen: Spuren oraler und laikaler Kultur in den Bibelepen des Heliand und Otfrids von Weißenburg, p. 37 Wolfgang Haubrichs https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4247 Manuscripts for Reading: The Material Evidence for the Use of Manuscripts Containing Middle High German Narrative Verse, p. 67 Nigel F. Palmer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4248 Some Aspects of Orality in the Anglo-Norman St Modwenna, p. 103 Tony Hunt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4249 Fictions of Orality in Troubadour Poetry, p. 119 Simon Gaunt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4250 Psalter und Gebetbuch am Hof: Bindeglieder zwischen klerikalliterater und laikal-mündlicher Welt, p. 139 Jürgen Wolf https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4251 Orality, Literacy, and/or Ekphrasis? Narrative Techniques of Visualization and the Poetics of Late Medieval Romance: Johann von Würzburg’s Wilhelm von Österreich, p. 181 Monika Schausten https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4252 Polytextual Reading: The Meditative Reading of Real and Metaphorical Books, p. 203 Sylvia Huot https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4253 Aural Illumination: Books and Aurality in the Frontispieces to Bishop Chevrot’s Cité de Dieu, p. 223 Joyce Coleman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.USML-EB.3.4254 Back matter (“Index”), p. 253