Limits to Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

By Concetta Giliberto

The essays here gathered focus on the production, adaptation and recontextualisation of letters, words, texts or clusters of texts in the context of the early medieval intellectual tradition. Hailing from either the vernacular or the classical tradition, such wholesome learning was often modified to create new systems of scholarship,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042927089
• ISBN13: 9789042927087
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"