Medieval Reading

Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text

Bibliographic Data

ID19925859
AuthorsSuzanne Reynolds (0000-0002-3204-4812, University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year1996
Publication date1996-08-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMedieval Reading (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511470356
OpenAlexW1549518798
ISBN9780511470356
Open LibraryOL34444450M
LanguageEN
Citations received23

This book argues for a radically new approach to the history of reading and literacy in the Middle Ages. It investigates the use of complex literary texts as the basis of elementary instruction in the Latin language and, using medieval teachers' notes (glosses) on a classical text (Horace's Satires) and a selection of other unpublished manuscript materials, it demonstrates that the reading of classical literature was profoundly shaped by the demands of acquiring Latin literacy through the arts of grammar and rhetoric. The resolutely literal readings of Latin texts found in these educational and institutional contexts call for a reassessment of the relationship of Latin and vernacular discourses in medieval culture, and of some central notions in medieval hermeneutics, notably allegory and authorial intention

Art · Grammar · Linguistics · Literature · Phrase · Rhetorical question · Syntax · Vernacular · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy · Ancient & Classical · Ancient Rhetoric · Appreciation · books and reading · Education · Europe · History · History and criticism · Latin language · Latin language, grammar · Latin literature · Latin philology · Learning and scholarship · Literacy · Literary Criticism · Literature, Medieval · Literature, medieval, history and criticism · Medieval · Medieval Education · Medieval Literature · Medieval Rhetoric · Medieval, 500-1500 · Middle ages · Rhetoric, Ancient · Rhetoric, Medieval · Roman influences · Study and teaching · To 1500

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