Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

by Suzanne Reynolds

Book Overview

This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped by the demands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604524
• ISBN13: 9780521604529
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"