Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh
- 2 Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word
- 3 Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul
- 4 Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages
- 5 Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain
- 6 Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy
- 7 Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium
- 8 Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century
- 9 Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England
- 10 Literacy in Carolingian government
- 11 Text and image in the Carolingian world
- Conclusion
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh
- 2 Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word
- 3 Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul
- 4 Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages
- 5 Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain
- 6 Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy
- 7 Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium
- 8 Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century
- 9 Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England
- 10 Literacy in Carolingian government
- 11 Text and image in the Carolingian world
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe , pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990