Writers and Readers in Medieval Italy: Studies in the History of Written Culture

by Armando Petrucci, Charles M. Radding (Editor)

In this fascinating book, one of the world's foremost authorities on writing and the social history of books discusses reading and writing in medieval Italy. Armando Petrucci addresses concerns central to paleographers and to cultural how people learned to write, what they wrote, what they read, how scribes were trained, the purposes for which books were copied, and how ideas about books influenced their use, preservation, and transmission.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published July 26, 1995