The Carolingians and the Written Word by Rosamond McKitterick

The Carolingians and the Written Word

Rosamond McKitterick

308 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth and ninth centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical élite, but was dispersed ...

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