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The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Manuscripts. --- materiality. --- mediality. --- runes.
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Inscriptions, Frisian --- Inscriptions, Runic --- Runes --- Inscriptions, Runic --- Runes --- Archaeology, Medieval. --- Historical linguistics. --- Inscriptions frisonnes --- Inscriptions runiques --- Runes --- Inscriptions runiques --- Archéologie médiévale. --- Linguistique historique. --- History
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Multi-disciplinary approaches shed fresh light on the Frisian people and their changing cultures.
Frisians --- History --- Social life and customs --- Antiquities --- Friesians --- Ethnology --- Frisians. --- To 1500 --- Agrarian Organization. --- Anglo-Saxons. --- Archaeology. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Ethnic Identity. --- Franks. --- Germanic Language. --- History. --- Landscape History. --- Language History. --- Law. --- Literacy. --- Literature. --- Runes. --- Saxons. --- Settlement History. --- Social Anthropology.
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This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which these medieval urban centres constituted a driving force in the development of literacy in Nordic societies generally.As in other parts of Europe, two languages — Latin and the vernacular — were in use. However, the Nordic area is also characterised by its use of the runic alphabet, and thus two writing systems were also in use. Another characteristic of the North is its comparatively weak urbanization, especially in Finland, Sweden, and Norway.Literacy and the uses of writing in medieval towns of the North is approached from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. The contributions cover topics related to urban literacy that include both case studies and general surveys of the dissemination of writing, all from a Northern perspective. The thematic chapters all present new sources and approaches that offer a new dimension both to the study of medieval urban literacy and also to Scandinavian studies.
City and town life --- Literacy --- History --- Paleography, Scandinavian --- Writing --- Written communication --- Runes --- Civilization, Medieval. --- History . --- Scandinavia --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- 091:003 --- 028 --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 091:003 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen
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