The Carolingians and the written word / Rosamond McKitterick.
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 in lay society and used for government and administ...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | Click for online access |