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Book SynopsisThe essays in Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy consider how distinct habits of writing took root among specific communities in Italy between the early Middle Ages and the eve of the Renaissance.
Trade Review'This volume is a welcome addition to the field of book history and will also be a necessary and useful resource for any scholar of medieval and early modern history and literature.' -- Aileen A. Feng Speculum vol 88:4:2013
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction / by William Robins * The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures / by William Robins PART I: Forms of Textual Exchange * Rhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / by Ronald Witt (Duke University) * Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / by Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) PART II: Materials of Textual Communication * Public Textual Cultures: A Case Study in Southern Italy / by Linda Safran (University of Toronto) * The Textualization of Early Italian Cantari / by Maria Bendinelli Predelli (McGill University) PART III: Administrative Textual Cultures * Paulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum: Written Oaths and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Carolingian Italy / by Nicholas Everett (University of Toronto) * Writing the Vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / by Luca Boschetto (University of Florence) PART IV: Collaborative Textual Cultures * The Death of Angela of Foligno and the Genesis of the Liber Angelae / by Dominique Poirel (St Bonaventure University) * Editing Legal Texts from the Late Middle Ages / by Susanne Lepsius (University of Munich) Contributors Index of Manuscripts Index of Names and Subjects
