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England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Variorum Collected Studies)

By Rodney M. Thomson

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
ISBN
0860786730, 9780860786733
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
138 MB (144954837 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
360\361
Time added
2024-09-20 15:33:09

Description

Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.

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