Syllabus/achievement requirements

Available in compendium

Carruthers, Mary J. 2008 [1990]. The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Second Edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1–17.

Charles-Edwards, T.M. “The context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland.” Literary in Medieval Celtic Societies. Edited by Huw Pryce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998), 62–79. – har ikke teksten digitalt, men den ligger I kompendiet for NFI2501 laget til v?ren 2020

Clanchy, M.T. 1993 [1979]. From Memory to Written Record. England 1066–1307. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 253–293

Clemens, Raymond & Timothy Graham. 2007. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press. Pp. 3–64

Clover, Carol J. 1982. The Medieval Saga. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Pp. 148–204.

Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva 2014: Writing and Reading in Medieval Manuscript Culture. The Translation and Transmission of the Story of Elye in Old French and Old Norse Literary Contexts. Brepols: Turnhout. 1–35.

Kleivane, Elise. 2018. “Epigraphic Ave Maria as evidence of medieval literacy.” In: Epigraphy in an intermedial context, eds. Bauer, Alessia, Elise Kleivane and Terje Spurkland. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press. Pp. 101–122.

Liepe, Lena. 2009. Studies in Icelandic Fourteenth Century Book Painting. Rit Snorrastofa, vol. 6. Reykholt: Snorrastofa. Pp. 11–24; 112–138.

Mostert, Marco. 2005. “Reading, writing and literacy: Communication and the History of Medieval Societies.” In: Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, ed. Pernille Hermann, pp. 261–285. Viking Collection 16. Odense: Odense University Press.

Rowe, Elizabeth Ashman. 2005. The Development of Flateyjarbók: Iceland and the Norwegian Dynastic Crisis of 1389, The Viking Collection, vol. 15. Odense: Odense University Press. 11–32.

Rohrbach, Lena. 2014. “Construction, organization, stabilization: Administrative literacy in the realm of Norway, the case of Iceland.” In: Rex Insularum. The king of Norway and his ‘skattlands’ as a political system c. 1260–1450, ed. Steinar Imsen, pp. 227–263. Trondheim: Fagbokforlaget. - available in the compendium for the course HIS4100 - Viking and Medieval Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

 

Available online

Bampi, Massimiliano. 2017. “Genre”. In: The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas, eds. Jakobsson, ?rmann, Sverrir Jakobsson. Routledge/Taylor and Francis. Pp. 4–14.

Cooper, Charlotte E. 2015. “What is Medieval Paratext?” (pdf) Marginalia , vol 19.

Miller, Carolyn R., Amy J. Devitt & Victoria J. Gallagher. 2018. “Genre: Permanence and Change”, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 48:3, 269–277.

Miller, Carolyn R. 2016. “Genre Innovation: Evolution, Emergence, or Something Else?” The Journal of Media Innovations 3.2.

Mortensen, L. B. 2017. The sudden success of prose: A comparative view of greek, latin, old french and old norse. Medieval Worlds, 2017(5), 3-45. 

Pratt, Karen, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer and Ad Putter. 2017. “Introduction”. In: Pratt, Karen, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer and Ad Putter (eds.), The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript. Text Collections from a European Perspective. G?ttingen: V & R unipress. 14–39.

R?sli, Lukas. 2018. “Paratextual References to the Genre Term ?slendinga s?gur in Old Norse-Icelandic Manuscripts” (pdf). Opuscula, Vol. XVII. 151–167.

 

Further reading

O'Neill, Timothy. 2017. “Initial wanderings: continuity and development of the smaller initials in Irish manuscripts, c.500-c.1500”, in: Moss, Rachel, Felicity O'Mahony, and Jane Maxwell (eds), An Insular odyssey: manuscript culture in early Christian Ireland and beyond. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 283–301.

Carruthers, Mary J. 2008 [1990]. The Book of Memory. A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. Second Edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 156–220.

Gu?rún Nordal. 2001. Tools of Literacy. The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Toronto: Toronto University Press. Pp. 18–116.

Irvine, Martin. 1994. The Making of Textual Culture: ’Grammatica’ and Literary Theory, 350–1100. Cambridge, UK. Pp. 1–22; 334–404.

Cerquiglini, Bernard. 1999. In Praise of the Variant. A Critical History of Philology. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. xi–xiv; 1–71.

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