THE MAKING OF TEXTUAL CULTURE by Martin Irvine ( 9780521031998 )

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THE MAKING OF TEXTUAL CULTURE
'GRAMMATICA' AND LITERARY THEORY 350-1100

By:

Martin Irvine

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0521031990

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 September, 2006

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature v. 19

Pages:

628

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A major study of the implications of grammatica for literary theory and textual culture in the medieval West.

Synopsis:

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, meaning and texts for other medieval disciplines. Martin Irvine draws together several aspects of medieval culture - literary theory, the nature of literacy, education, biblical interpretation, the literary canon and linguistic thought - in order to disclose the more far-reaching social effect of grammatica, chief of which was the making of textual culture in the medieval West.

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