The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe

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List of illustrations Contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction Rosamond McKitterick 1. Literacy in Ireland: the evidence of the Patrick dossier in the Book of Armagh Jane Stevenson 2. Anglo-Saxon lay society and the written word Susan Kelly 3. Administration, law and culture in Merovingian Gaul Ian Wood 4. Literacy and the papal government in late antiquity and the early middle ages Thomas F. X. Noble 5. Literacy and the laity in early mediaeval Spain Roger Collins 6. Aspects of mediaeval Jewish literacy Stefan C. Reif 7. Writing in early mediaeval Byzantium Margaret Mullet 8. Literacy displayed: the use of inscriptions at the monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno in the early ninth century John Mitchell 9. Royal government and the written word in late Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes 10. Literacy in Carolingian government Janet L. Nelson 11. Text and image in the Carolingian world Rosamond McKitterick Conclusion Rosamond McKitterick Index.