Visible English: Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, C. 700-C. 1550

by Wendy Scase

Visible English recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of littera pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. Littera is at the heart of the set of theories and practices that constitute the 'graphic culture' of the book's title. The book shows for the first time that littera pedagogy was an 'us and them' discourse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503598420
• ISBN13: 9782503598420
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 427 Pages