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7 - The Written Word: Literacy across Languages

from Part II - Why Do We Study the Manuscript?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2020

By
Jane Gilbert  and
Sara Harris
Edited by
Orietta Da Rold  and
Elaine Treharne
Orietta Da Rold
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Elaine Treharne
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

On the nature of linguistic skillsets in the later Middle Ages as critical to understanding the appearance of particular vernacular and Latin texts – often incorporated in manuscripts as additions or glosses – and categorized by scholars in ways that do not fully recognize the broad spectrum of linguistic possibility and permeability in this period.

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Multilingualismlanguage skillsproduction
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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts , pp. 149 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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