The meaning of media
/ Horn, Anna Catharina
- 1st ed.
- Berlin De Gruyter c2021
- 213 p. ill. 25 cm.
Includes index
The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters.
9783110694970
Scandinavian literature History and criticism; materiality; Manuscripts