Description:This collection is the fruit of a small multi-disciplinary symposium held at York University, Toronto, in 1979. The contributions include work by specialists in manuscript studies, philology, history of education, history of science, hagiography, and literary theory. Among the questions addressed are: texts and their histories in the British Isles, works known to the English and the Irish, composition of libraries, peculiarities of Latinity, the teaching of the liberal arts and of science, and canons of literary theory in Latin composition. Attention is also paid to the activities of the English and the Irish on the continent. The collection is intended to illustrate the unique place of the British Isles in the cultural history of early medieval Europe.Contributors are Michael Herren, John Contreni, Michael Lapidge, Wesley Stevens, Gernot Wieland, Colin Chase, David Dumville, Christine Ineichen-Eder and François Kerlouégan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066. To get started finding Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
226
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Release
1981
ISBN
0888448015
Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066
Description: This collection is the fruit of a small multi-disciplinary symposium held at York University, Toronto, in 1979. The contributions include work by specialists in manuscript studies, philology, history of education, history of science, hagiography, and literary theory. Among the questions addressed are: texts and their histories in the British Isles, works known to the English and the Irish, composition of libraries, peculiarities of Latinity, the teaching of the liberal arts and of science, and canons of literary theory in Latin composition. Attention is also paid to the activities of the English and the Irish on the continent. The collection is intended to illustrate the unique place of the British Isles in the cultural history of early medieval Europe.Contributors are Michael Herren, John Contreni, Michael Lapidge, Wesley Stevens, Gernot Wieland, Colin Chase, David Dumville, Christine Ineichen-Eder and François Kerlouégan.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066. To get started finding Insular Latin Studies: Papers on Latin Texts and Manuscripts of the British Isles, 550-1066, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.