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Essays looking at the process of teaching and learning to write in the middle ages, with evidence drawn from across Europe.
List of contents
Foreword - Pamela Robinson
Ink writing and 'A sgraffio' writing in Ancient Rome: from learning to practical use - Paolo Fioretti
Risk and fluidity in script: an Insular instance - David Ganz
Lesen und Schreiben in den Klöstern des frühen Mittelalters - Martin Steinmann
Litterae e scrittura nell'insegnamento della Grammatica in età altomedievale: premesse teoretiche e aspetti practici - Patrizia Carmassi
A School for Scribes - Aliza Cohen-Mushlin
Latinis regulis barbara nomina stringi non possunt, or how to write the vernacular - Annina Seiler
Reading and writing Gothic in the Carolingian Age - Alessandro Zironi
Latin script and the vernacular text in the Middle Ages: the case of Poland in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - Jerzy Kaliszuk
The first Norwegian scribes and their teachers - Åslaug Ommundsen
Learning to write in southern Sweden: liturgical fragments and the creation of the culture of the book - Erik Niblaeus
Reading and writing in medieval Iceland - Gudvardur Már Gunnlaugsson
Scritture di practici, scritture di giuristi, scritture di dotti: 'scuole' ed esperienze grafiche a confronto - Cristina Mantegna
Teaching, function and social diffusion of writing in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Florence - Irene Ceccherini
L'enseignement et l'apprentissage de l'ecriture en Catalogne au Moyen Age - Jesús Alturo
Aprendizaje y modelos gráficos: entre el ámbito profesional y el privado - Carmen del Camino Martínez
Apprendre à écrire dans le Portugal médiéval. Bilan des connaissances - Maria do Rosário Morujao
Learning to write numerals in the Middle Ages - Charles Burnett
Quaedam regulae de modo titulandi seu apificandi pro novellis scriptoribus copulatae: a late-medieval tutorial for novice scribes - Olaf Pluta
'Written with the Finger of God': fourteenth-century images of scribal practice in the Lichtenthal Psalter -
The Valenciennes Papias and Learning in the grammar school in thirteenth-century France - Alison Stones
From elementary school to divine revelation: the alphabets of Paul Lautensack - Berthold Kress
Works cited
Index of Manuscripts
About the author
P.R. Robinson
Summary
Essays looking at the process of teaching and learning to write in the middle ages, with evidence drawn from across Europe.
