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The Uses of literacy in early mediaeval Europe

This book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early mediaeval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early mediaeval societies between c. 400 and c. 1000.
Print Book, English, 1990
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1990
Aufsatzsammlung
xvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521344098, 9780521428965, 0521344093, 0521428963
19778528
Literacy in Ireland : the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh / Jane Stevenson
Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word / Susan Kelly
Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul / Ian Wood
Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Thomas F.X. Noble
Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain / Roger Collins
Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy / Stefan C. Reif
Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium / Margaret Mullett
Literacy displayed : the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century / John Mitchell
Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England / Simon Keynes
Literacy in Carolingian government / Janet L. Nelson
Text and image in the Carolingian world / Rosamond McKitterick