Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia - The Written and the World, 711-1031

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia offers a new approach to the sociocultural history of the northern Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages, using the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin legal records from the period to explore the workings of literacy and documentation.

List of contents

• Introduction: Literacy as Textuality


• Part I. The Lifecycle


• 1: Archival Voices


• 2: Creating


• 3: Retaining


• Part II. The Network


• 4: Proving


• 5: Framing


• 6: Sacred Words


• Conclusion: Imaginary Libraries


• Appendix

About the author

Graham Barrett is a social and cultural historian of Latin literacy, language, and literature in the early Middle Ages, specialising in the Iberian Peninsula. He studied History and Latin at Victoria College, University of Toronto, before completing his DPhil in History at Balliol College, University of Oxford. After holding a Junior Research Fellowship in Medieval History at St John's College, University of Oxford, he joined the University of Lincoln, where he is now Senior Lecturer in Late Antiquity. His publications range across the social, cultural, literary, and linguistic history of the Middle Ages, which he combines with a particular interest in edition, translation, and commentary.

Summary

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia offers a new approach to the sociocultural history of the northern Iberian Peninsula in the early Middle Ages, using the first complete survey of the over 4,000 surviving Latin legal records from the period to explore the workings of literacy and documentation.

Product details

• Authors: Barrett, Graham Barrett, Graham (Senior Lecturer in Late Antiquity Barrett, Barrett Graham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192895370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289537-0
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Historiography, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Historiography, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval