Approximately 500 pages are to be read in total. Approx. 300 pages compulsory literature according to the list of articles below. In addition to this students are to read approx. 200 pages of relevant literature at their own choice.
Kompendium:
- Baüml, Franz, H., 1980: Varieties and Consequences of Medieval Literacy and Illitercy. Speculum, vol. 55, no. 2. Pp. 237-265.
- Hagland, Jan Ragnar, 1998: Runes as Sources for the Middle Ages, in Düwel, Klaus (ed.), in collaboration with Sean Nowak, Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplin?rer Forschung: Abhandlungen des Vierten Internationalen Symposiums über Runen und Runeninschriften in G?ttingen vom 4.-9. August 1995, 1998. Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 619-28.
- K?llstr?m, Magnus, 2018: Harald?r stenm?stari - Haraldus magister: a case study on the interaction between runes and Roman script. In: Bauer A., Kleivane E., Spurkland T (eds.), Epigraphy in an intermedial context. Dublin: Four Courts. Pp. 59–74.
- Kleivane, Elise, 2018: Epigraphic Ave Maria as evidence of medieval literacy. In: Bauer A., Kleivane E., Spurkland T (eds.), Epigraphy in an intermedial context. Dublin: Four Courts. Pp. 101-122.
- Knirk, James E., 1994: Learning to Write with Runes in Medieval Norway. In Inger Lindell (ed.): Medeltida skrift- och spr?kkultur: Nordisk medeltidsliteracy i ett diglossisk och digrafisk perspektiv II: Nio f?relesningar fr?n ett symposium i Stockholm v?ren 1992 med en inneledning av Barbro S?derberg. Stockholm: S?llskapet Runica et Medi?valia, Stockholms universitet. S?llskapet Runica et Medi?valia, Opuscula 2. Pp. 169-212.
- Knirk, James E., 1998: Runic Inscriptions Containing Latin in Norway. In Düwel, Klaus (ed.), in collaboration with Sean Nowak, Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplin?rer Forschung: Abhandlungen des Vierten Internationalen Symposiums über Runen und Runeninschriften in G?ttingen vom 4.-9. August 1995. Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 476-507.
- Melnikova, Elena A., 1998: Runic Inscriptions as a Source for the Relation of Northern and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. In Düwel, Klaus (ed.), in collaboration with Sean Nowak: Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplin?rer Forschung: Abhandlungen des Vierten Internationalen Symposiums über Runen und Runeninschriften in G?ttingen vom 4.-9. August 1995. Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 647-59.
- Mostert, Marco. 2012. “Introduction. [An adaptation and revision of “New approaches to medieval communication” from 1999].” In: A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication, ed. Marco Mostert, pp 1–27. Brepols: Turnhout.
- Parkes, M.B., 1991: The Literacy of the Laity, in Parkes, M.B.: Scribes, Scripts and Readers. Studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts. The Hamledon Press. Pp. 275-297.
- Spurkland, Terje, 1994: K and B: One Grapheme or Two? In James E. Knirk (ed.): Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Runes and Runic Inscriptions, Grindaheim 1990. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. Pp. 269-78.
- Spurkland, Terje, 1998: Runic Inscriptions as Sources for the History of Scaninavian Languages in the Middle Ages. In Düwel, Klaus (ed.), in collaboration with Sean Nowak: Runeninschriften als Quellen interdisziplin?rer Forschung: Abhandlungen des Vierten Internationalen Symposiums über Runen und Runeninschriften in G?ttingen vom 4.-9. August 1995. Berlin: de Gruyter. Pp. 592-600.
- Spurkland, Terje, 2004: Literacy and 'Runacy' in Medieval Scandinavia. In: Adams J., Holman K., Scandinavia and Europe 800-1350: Contact, Conflict and Coexistence. Turnhout: Brepols. Pp. 333-344.
Elektronisk tilgjengelig:
- Zilmer, Kristel, 2013: Christian Prayers and Invocations in Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions from the Viking Age and Middle Ages. Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies 4. Pp. 129–71.
- Zilmer, Kristel, 2016: Words in Wood and Stone: Uses of Runic Writing in Medieval Norwegian Churches. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 12. Pp. 199–227.
- Rikke Steenholt Olesen, 2010. Runic Amulets from Medieval Denmark. In: Futhark 1, pp. 161-176.