The capacity to read and write are different abilities, yet while studies of medieval readers and reading have proliferated in recent years, there has so far been little examination of how people learnt to write in the middle ages - an aspect of literacy which this volume aims to address. The papers published here discuss evidence adduced from the -a sgraffio- writing of Ancient Rome, through the attempts of scribes to model their handwriting after that of the master-scribe in a disciplined scriptorium, to the repeated copying of set phrases in a Florentine merchant's day book. They show how...

Contributors: Samuel G. Armistead, Roger Boase, Charles Burnett, Alan Deyermond, John Edwards, Brenda Fish, T.J. Gorton, Richard Hitchcock, David Hook, Francisco Marcos Marin, Ralph Penny, Barry Taylor, Roger M. Walker, Milija Pavlovic

Contributors: Pamela King, James Simpson, Henrietta Twycross-Martin, Janet Cowen, W.A. Davenport, Julia Boffey, Jane Roberts, Rosamund S. Allen, Peter Brown

Anglo-Saxon literature; theology; patristics.

Contributors: Alexander Kerr, Jean Subrenat, Joseph J. Duggan, Judith Belam, Marianne Ailes, Philippe Verelst, Francois Suard, Karen Pratt, James Simpson, Philip E. Bennett, Peter Noble, Tony Hunt, Edward A. Heinemann, Finn Sinclair, Colin Smith, Gordon Knott, Jan A. Nelson

Contributors: Alan Deyermond, Samuel G. Armistead, Thomas Montgomery, David Hook, Antonia Long, Vera Castro Lingl, Matthew Bailey, Mercedes Vaquero, Fernando Gomez Redondo, Fatima Alfonso Pinto

Contributors: Harold Short, Janet Bately, Stewart Brookes, Mary Clayton, Julie Coleman, Patrick W. Conner, Janet M. Cowen, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Susan Irvine, Peter Jackson, Christian J. Kay, Hugh Magennis, Janet L. Nelson, Eamonn O Carragain, Lucy Perry, Edward Pettit, Jane Roberts, Gopa Roy, Katharine Scarfe Beckett, Donald Scragg, E.G. Stanley, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach

Contributors: Anne J. Duggan, Peter Dronke, Cyril Edwards, Julia Walworth