Jack Goody and Ian Watt, "The
Consequences of Literacy" in Literacy in Traditional Societies
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 27-68
3. Poets and Transmitters in the Early
Middle Ages
Morton W. Bloomfield and Charles W.
Dunn, The Role of the Poet in Early Societies (London: D. S. Brewer,
1992), 1-16 ("The Poetic Function"), 17-29 ("The Primal
Situation: Poetry and Patronage"), 106-119
4. The Benedictine Centuries
Jean Leclercq, O.S.B., The Love
of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture, revised
edition (New York: Fordham University Press, 1974), 87-101
Francis Wormald, "The Monastic
Library", in: The English Library before 1700, Francis Wormald
and C. E. Wright eds. (London: Athlone Press, 1958), 15-31
5. Tradition and 'Collective Memory'
Roger Bastide, "Problems of the
Collective Memory", The African religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology
of the Interpenetration of Civilizations, Helen Sebba trans. (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), 240-259
Patrick J. Geary, "Men, Women,
and Family Memory", in Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion
at the End of the First Millennium. (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1994), 48-80
6. Monastery & University
David Knowles, "The Origins of
the Universities" and "Studies, Degrees and Textbooks",
in The Evolution of Medieval Thought (London: Longman, 1988), 153-184
C. H. Talbot, "The Universities
and the Mediaeval Library", in: The English Library before 1700,
Francis Wormald and C. E. Wright eds. (London: Athlone Press, 1958), 66-86
7. Reading
G. S. Ivy, "The Bibliography
of the Manuscript Book", The English Library before 1700, Francis
Wormald and C. E. Wright eds. (London: Athlone Press, 1958), 32-65
Leila Avrin, Scribes, Script and
Books: The Book Arts from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Chicago/London:
American Library Association and the British Museum, 1991) 205-229 ("Codices
Manu Scripti: Books Written by Hand")
8. Writing
Paul Saenger, "Silent Reading:
Its Impact on Late Medieval Script and Society", Viator 13
(1982), 367-414
Kenneth S. Goodman & Yetta M.
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Reading", Harvard Educatinal Review 47:3 (1977), 317-333
9. Models of Organization: The List,
the Page, the Book
Jack Goody, "What's in a List?",
in: The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1977), 74-111
M. B. Parkes, "The Influence
of the Concepts of Ordinatio and Compilatio on the Development
of the Book", in: Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented
to Richard William Hunt,
J. J. Alexander and M. T. Gibson eds.
(Oxford: Clarendon Presss, 1976), 115-141
Richard H. Rouse & Mary A. Rouse,
"Statim invenire: Schools, Preachers, and New Attitudes to
the Page", in: Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century,
R. L. Benson & G. Constable eds. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1982), 201-228
Jacob Neusner, "When Intellctual
Paradigms Shift: Does the End of the Old Mark the Beginning of the New?"
History and Theory 27:3 (1988), 241-260
10. The Textual Tradition and the
Making of Canons
M. D. Knowles, "The Preservation
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Wormald and C. E. Wright eds. (London: Athlone Press, 1958), 136-147
Robert A. Kaster. "`Humanitas'
and Roman Education", Storia della storiografia 9 (1986), 5-15
R. M. Wilson, "The Contents of
the Mediaeval Library", The English Library before 1700, Francis
Wormald and C. E. Wright eds. (London: Athlone Press, 1958), 87-111
11. Organized Collection: The Archive
Michael T. Clanchy, From Memory
to Written Record. England 1066-1307, 2nd edition (Oxford: Blackwell,
1993), 145-184
12. Archive and Tradition
Rosamond Faith, "Class Struggle
in Fourteenth-Century England", in People's History and Socialist
Theory, ed. by Raphael Samuel (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1981), 50-59
Gadi Algazi, "The Shape of the
Landscape: Nicholas of Cusa, the Mosel Peasants and the Rural Law",
in Popular Culture, B.-Z. Kedar ed. (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 1996),
123-139 [in Hebrew]
13. Writing and Authority
Marry Carruthers, The Book of Memory:
A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990), 189-220
Robert K. Merton, "Resistance
to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science", AES,
4:2 (1963), 237-282
12. The Diffusion of Court Culture
Elizabeth Salter, "Courts and
Courtly Love", in: The Medieval World, David Daiches and Anthony
Thorlby eds. (London: Aldus Books, 1973), 401-444
Joachim Bumke, Courtly Culture
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 128-155
14. A Reconsideration of the Hypotheses
Brian V. Street, "Orality and
Literacy as Ideological Constructions: Some Problems in Cross-cultural
Studies", Culture & History 2 (1987), 7-30
Sylvia Scribner & Michael Cole,
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182 (1973), 553-559
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