Author: Hermann, Pernille; editor:
Title: Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavian Culture
Description: [Odense, Denmark], Univ. of Southern Denmark, 2005. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 355 pp, Series: The Viking Collection. Studies in Northern Civilization, Volume 16.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: L. Webster "Visual Literacy in a Protoliterate Age"; M. Clanchy "An Icon of Literacy: The Depiction at Tuse of Jesus Going to School"; S. Brink "Verba Volant, Scripta Manent? Aspects of Early Scandinavian Oral Society"; T. Spurkland "Viking Age Literacy in Runes: A Contradiction in Terms?"; J.P. Holck "Cultural Contacts & Genres of Runes: Danish Literacy until 1300"; K.G. Johansson "On Orality & the Verschriftlichung of Skirnismál"; J. Jesch "Skaldic Verse, a Case of Literacy avant la lettre?"; G. Nordal "Attraction of Opposites: Skaldic Verses in Njáls Saga"; W.S. van Egmond "Hagiography as a Source for Early Medieval Literacy: Possibilities & Restrictions"; M. Mostert "Reading, Writing & Literacy: Communication & the History of Medieval Societies"; A. Nedkvitne "Administrative Literacy in Scandinavia, 1000-1350"; K.-J. Lorenzen-Schmidt "Early Literacy in Rural Communication in the Late Middle Ages & Early Modern Period: The Example of Schleswig-Holstein"; C. Appel " Literacy in 17th-Century Denmark".

Keywords: Medieval Literacy, Historical, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Orality Reading, Oral Literature, Literary History, Historiography, Early Modern