Literacy in medieval and early modern Vilnius

Paralleltitel:Kultura literacka Wilna (1323-1655)
Verfasser: Niedzwiedz, Jakub
Dokumenttyp:einbändig
Erscheinungsjahr:2022
Reihe:Utrecht studies in medieval literacy; 55
Vorlageform:Jakub Niedzwiedz
Verlag: Brepols
PublisherPlaces:Turnhout
Schlagwort: Vilnius
Schriftlichkeit
Schreiben
Sprache
Geschichte 1323-1655
Geo-Klassifikation: Litauen
Vilnius
ISBN:978-2-503-60430-5
978-2-503-60431-2 online
Physische Eigenschaften:xliv, 765 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Fußnoten:"Late medieval and early modern cities in Europe could not exist without the use of the written word. Using Vilnius, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th-18th centuries, this book shows how rhetoric influenced all the spheres of urban literacy: the rules of writing, rhetorical genres and their functions, and the social practices of producing, preserving and disseminating texts. 00Vilnius was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-scriptural city and its literary culture was particularly rich. What was the legal basis of the city? Who were the professionals of the written word? What was the role of schools and books in the literary culture of the city? How did women participate in Vilnius?s textuality? Which rhetorical genres were used? 00This study is based on research into the different types of texts used in Vilnius: contracts
last wills
sermons
municipal, state and church records
primers
shopping lists
poetry
manuals
and letters, in Polish, Latin, Ruthenian, Lithuanian, Yiddish and other languages written or printed in five alphabets. The rhetorical organization of Vilnius can serve as a model for examining other towns of the time. It also shows the complexity of the use of script in the multi-ethnic urban communities of North-Eastern Europe."
Signatur:Open Access
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