Search results for "MANOSCRITTI ANGLOSASSONE ISTRUZIONE EDUCAZIONE MEDIEVALE"

'Instructional Manuscripts in England: the Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Codices and the Early Norman Ones'

2007

The essay offers a definition of the kind of manuscript which might have been employed for instructional purposes in late Anglo-Saxon England. The work is based on a complete survey of the content of the Anglo-Saxon manuscripts dating from the tenth to the twelfth century; a full list of such mss is provided in the Appendix. The educational texts in use in the Middle Ages generally occurred within a distinctive category of miscellaneous codices. As far as Anglo-Saxon England is concerned, it is possible to single out a number of ‘instructional’ manuscripts, with diverse but somehow consistent items. The range of educational texts comprised grammar primers as well as some classical and sever…