Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe » (New Edition)

This book investigates the importance of literacy in early medieval Europe in a number of different societies between c. 400 and c.
1000.

List of illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction Rosamond McKitterick;

1. Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh Jane Stevenson;
2. Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word Susan Kelly;
3. Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul Ian Wood;
4. Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages Thomas F. X. Noble;
5. Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain Roger Collins;
6. Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy Stefan C. Reif;
7. Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium Margaret Mullet;
8. Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century John Mitchell;
9. Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes;
10. Literacy in Carolingian government Janet L. Nelson;
11. Text and image in the Carolingian world Rosamond McKitterick; Conclusion Rosamond McKitterick; Index.