Along the oral-written continuum : types of texts, relations and their implications /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ranković, Slavica, Melve, Leidulf, Mundal, Else
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2010]
Series:Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conceptualising the continuum. Verbal marketplaces and the oral-literate continuum / John Miles Foley ; The oral-literate continuum as a space / Slavica Ranković ; Mapping public debates along the oral-literate continuum (1000-1300) / Leidulf Melve
  • Oral texts and textual performances : verbal art along the continuum. The once and future king : history and memory in Sigvatr's poetry on Óláfr Haraldsson / Judith Jesch ; Old Norse memorial discourse between orality and literacy / Joseph Harris ; Viking age rune stones in Scandinavia : the interplay between oral monumentality and commemorative literacy / Kristel Zilmer ; How did the arrival of writing influence Old Norse oral culture? / Else Mundal ; Liquid knowledge : traditional conceptualisations of learning in Eddic poetry / Judy Quinn ; The Poetic edda : literature or folklore? / Vésteinn Ólason ; The poetic curse and its relatives / Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen ; A text in flux : St. Hallvard's legend and its redactions / Åslaug Ommundsen ; The charm and difficulty of a fragment : tracing orality in Cena Cypriani and Summarium bible / Lucie Doležalová ; Staging the text : on the development of consciousness of writing in the Norwegian and Icelandic literature of the Middle Ages / Jürg Glauser
  • Of kings and peasants : the orality-literacy continuum and the advent of administrative writing. Audire, intelligere, memorie commendare : attitudes of the rulers of medieval Central Europe towards written texts / Anna Adamska ; A Carolingian pun and Charlemagne's languages / Theodore M. Andersson ; Administrative literacy in Norway / Sverre Bagge ; On evaluating "the growth of a literate mentality" in late medieval Norway / Jan Ragnar Hagland ; The role of the Swedish lawman in the spread of lay literacy / Inger Larsson ; Using written word in a late medieval rural society : the case of Denmark / Bjørn Poulsen ; The early history of written culture in the Northern Netherlands / Marco Mostert.