Visible English: graphic culture, scribal practice, and identity, c. 700-c. 1550

Visible English' recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of "littera" pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. "Littera" is at the heart o...

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1. Verfasser: Scase, Wendy 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Turnhout, Belgium Brepols [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Utrecht studies in medieval literacy 54
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Zusammenfassung:Visible English' recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of "littera" pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. "Littera" is at the heart of the set of theories and practices that constitute the ?graphic culture? of the book?s title. The book shows for the first time that "littera" pedagogy was an ?us and them? discourse that functioned as a vehicle for identity formation. Using "littera" pedagogy as a framework for understanding the medieval English-language corpus from the point of view of the readers and writers who produced it, 'Visible English' offers new insights on experiences of writing and reading English in communities ranging from those first in contact with Latin literacy to those where print was an alternative to manuscript. Discussing a broad range of materials from so-called ?pen-trials? and graffiti to key literary manuscripts, 'Visible English' provides new perspectives on the ways that the alphabet was understood, on genres such as alphabet poems, riddles, and scribal signatures, and on the different ways in which scribes copied Old and Middle English texts. It argues that the graphic culture underpinned and transmitted by "littera" pedagogy provided frameworks for the development and understanding of English-language literacy practices and new ways of experiencing social belonging and difference. To be literate in English, it proposes, was to inhabit identities marked by Anglophone literate practices.
Beschreibung:xix, 408 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9782503598420

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