In the vineyard of the text : a commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon
In a work with implications for the electronic age, this work explores how revolutions in technology affect the way we read and understand text. It looks at the "Didascalicon" of Hugh of St Victor, and the revolution it describes, with reading becoming a silent personal pursuit.
Print Book, English, ©1993
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©1993
History
vi, 154 pages ; 23 cm
9780226372365, 0226372367
1015469927
Reading toward wisdom : Incipit
Auctoritas
Studium
Disciplina
Sapientia
Lumen
The page as a mirror
The new self
Amicitia
Order, memory, and history : Never look down on anything
Ordo
Artes
The treasure chest in the reader's heart
The history of memory
The lawyer's skill at the service of prayer
Memory training as prelude to wisdom
Historia as foundation
All creation is pregnant
Monastic reading : Meditation
Communities of mumblers
The page as a vineyard and garden
Lecito as a way of life
Otio monastica
The demise of the lectio divina
Lectio in Latin : Latin monasticism
Gregorian chant
The Latin monopoly over letters
Scholastic reading : Hugh add a preface
The duty to read
In spite of slender income
The canon regular edifies by his lectio
The flipping of the page
The new leric monopolizes letters
Silent reading
The scholastic dictatio
From the recorded speech to the record of thought : The alphabet as a technology
From the trace of utterance to the mirror of concept
From the comment on a story to the story about a subject
Ordinatio visible patterns
Statim inverni instant access
Authore versus compiler, commentatot, and scribe
Layout
Illuminatio versus illustratio
The portable book
From book to text : Toward a history of the text as object
The abstraction of the text
Lingua and textus
"All things are pregnant."