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- catalog abstract ""This book is the first extensive study of the oral culture in the early medieval West. Access to this culture is inevitably through the written sources, and indeed there is quite substantial information in the sources once these are properly 'decoded'. Latin is the dominant language of the surviving contemporary records, but it emerges that this language is highly inadequate to articulate the main features of the early medieval non-Latin societies. It is argued that the written sources in the period are not representative for these societies generally, which in fact had a broad based, effective and adequate oral culture. It is suggested that this situation accounts for the slow emergence of vernacular literature." "The book also poses approaches to the field of music, also an integral part of the oral culture, and while the text remains strongly problem-orientated, suggesting ways of dealing concretely with oral culture in times of distant past, it will become a standard reference for both academics and students in this field."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b6873807.
- catalog coverage "Europe History 392-814.".
- catalog coverage "Europe History 476-1492.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Empire, 284-476.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""This book is the first extensive study of the oral culture in the early medieval West. Access to this culture is inevitably through the written sources, and indeed there is quite substantial information in the sources once these are properly 'decoded'. Latin is the dominant language of the surviving contemporary records, but it emerges that this language is highly inadequate to articulate the main features of the early medieval non-Latin societies. It is argued that the written sources in the period are not representative for these societies generally, which in fact had a broad based, effective and adequate oral culture. It is suggested that this situation accounts for the slow emergence of vernacular literature." "The book also poses approaches to the field of music, also an integral part of the oral culture, and while the text remains strongly problem-orientated, suggesting ways of dealing concretely with oral culture in times of distant past, it will become a standard reference for both academics and students in this field."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 292 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Formation of the medieval West.".
- catalog identifier "0312124023".
- catalog identifier "1851821538".
- catalog isFormatOf "Formation of the medieval West.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "Formation of the medieval West.".
- catalog spatial "Europe History 392-814.".
- catalog spatial "Europe History 476-1492.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Empire, 284-476.".
- catalog subject "940.1 20".
- catalog subject "Carolingians.".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "D121 .R57 1994".
- catalog subject "Germanic peoples.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Europe.".
- catalog title "The formation of the medieval West : studies in the oral culture of the barbarians / Michael Richter.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".