The Making of Textual Culture: 'Grammatica' and Literary Theory 350-1100

by Martin Irvine and Irvine

Book Overview

This is the a major study of the cultural work performed by grammatica, the central discipline concerned with literacy, language, interpretation and literature in medieval society. Grammatica was, with all aspects of Latin literary text, its language, meaning and value. Martin Irvine demonstrates that grammatica, though the first of the liberal arts, was not simply one discipline among many: it had an essentially constitutive function, defining language,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031990
• ISBN13: 9780521031998
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"