The Carolingians and the Written Word

The Carolingians and the Written Word
Author: Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1989-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521315654


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Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.