Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy

William Robins is president of Victoria University and associate professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

‘This volume is a welcome addition to the field of book history and will also be a necessary and useful resource for any scholar of medieval and early modern history and literature.’ - Aileen A. Feng (Speculum vol 88:4:2013)

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction / by William Robins The Study of Medieval Italian Textual Cultures / by William RobinsPART I: Forms of Textual ExchangeRhetoric and Reform During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / by Ronald Witt (Duke University)Adventures in Textuality: Lyric Poetry, the Tenzone and Cino da Pistoia / by Christopher Kleinhenz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)PART II: Materials of Textual CommunicationPublic Textual Cultures: A Case Study in Southern Italy / by Linda Safran (University of Toronto)The Textualization of Early Italian Cantari / by Maria Bendinelli Predelli (McGill University)PART III: Administrative Textual CulturesPaulinus of Aquileia's Sponsio episcoporum: Written Oaths and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Carolingian Italy / by Nicholas Everett (University of Toronto) Writing the Vernacular at the Merchant Court of Florence / by Luca Boschetto (University of Florence)PART IV: Collaborative Textual CulturesThe Death of Angela of Foligno and the Genesis of the Liber Angelae / by Dominique Poirel (St Bonaventure University)Editing Legal Texts from the Late Middle Ages / by Susanne Lepsius (University of Munich)ContributorsIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of Names and Subjects