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Communes et omnibus notas. Sulla relazione tra litterae communes e rudimenta litterarum fra età tardoantica e precarolingia
No full textThis paper focuses on the interrelated meanings of the expression litterae communes as attested in different types of sources. One group of texts includes a law issued by the emperors Valentinian and Valens and one of the Justinian’s novels; here litterae communes is employed to refer to the minuscule writing system of the new Roman cursive, which was widespread in documentary practices outside the imperial chancery and, more generally, in current uses from the 4th century onwards. Another type of sources comprises pedagogical-grammatical texts from Late Antiquity to early Middle Ages, where the expression litterae communes relates to the rudimenta litterarum that could be learnt through primary education. The convergence point between these seemingly different meanings lies in the letterforms used for teaching/learning writing, as revealed by the comparison between the graphic models at the basis of elementary writings and the scripts employed for pragmatic purposes from Late Antiquity to Precarolingian Age
Sulla onciale cosiddetta “africana”
No full textThe paper focuses on the so-called “African uncial”, which is considered as a particular “type” of uncial used in the Roman province of Africa during 4th-5th century. First of all, the research shows the fragility of the textual arguments on which the African hypothesis is based. Secondly, it proves that the graphic features attributed to the African uncial are not so strongly – and not exclusively – present in supposedly African manuscripts: they probably depends on a “graphic taste” that does not – or not only – belong to a specific area. Finally, the evidences open up new perspectives on the variety and synchronicity of graphic trends in the uncial “old style”
Libri dal libro, libri nel libro. I numerosi volti del Codex Seguierianus di Cipriano (Par. lat. 10592)
No full textThe so-called Codex Seguierianus (Par. lat. 10592) is a late antique witness of Cyprian’s writings, which took different facies during its lifetime. By means of an integrated analysis of its graphic, bibliological and textual features and the meticulous observation of codicological peculiarities (signatures, marginalia and restorations), this paper attempts to reconstruct the manuscript’s stratigraphy and to retrace, backward in time, the book’s biography. In this way, this research reveals that the codex has turned into “various books” over time and it was born as “books in the book”, because of its complex genesis
Le quattro dimensioni della scrittura femminile nella tarda antichità greca e romana
No full textDuring Late Antiquity the relationship between women and written culture was difficult, as a consequence of a more general suspicion towards female literacy. Nevertheless, the graphic acculturation of women was not absolutely disallowed; on the contrary, female literacy was partly admitted in this period, although only for spiritual edification. Focusing both on Greek and latin evidences – especially the literary ones –, it seems possible to detect the traces of four dimensions of female writing that reflect the various ways in which some women actively participated in written culture: they could write for communicating, composing literary works, copying texts and studying. The analysis of these four dimensions allows to investigate the different types of female ‘literacies’ in Late Antiquity; furthermore, it reveals the role played by Christian culture and social status in determining the profile of potential writers
I fondamenti materiali della tradizione degli opuscula di Cipriano: la tarda antichità
No full textThe earlier stages of Cyprian’s transmission can be reconstructed by combining the paleographical, bibliological and textual analysis of codices antiquiores (in particular Par. lat 10592 and Taur. G V 37) with the study of literary sources (especially Cyprian’s epistolary and Vita Cypriani drawn up by deacon Pontius). On the basis of these evidences, it becomes possible shedding light both on the various physical settings of the oldest editions of Cyprian’s opuscula and on the different textual selection and order of its contents. The material and textual profile of these ancient collections is a consequence of books practices, conservation manners and circulation strategies of bishop’s writings put in place in the author’s milieu when he was still alive or shortly after his martyrdom, but also in early Christian communities. Therefore, the high degree of contamination in Cyprian’s manuscript tradition and the configuration of medieval recensio rooted both in synchronic circulation of different treatises editions and in structural instability of these late antique corpora
Civiltà a contatto nel Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo. Economia Società Istituzioni. Atti delle XXI Giornate normanno-sveve (Melfi, 13-14 ottobre 2014)
No full textNegli Atti delle XXI giornate normanno sveve sono raccolti undici contributi, presentati nel castello federiciano di Melfi il 13 ed il 14 ottobre 2014, che indagano gli esiti dei contatti verificatisi nel Mezzogiorno normanno svevo tra le diverse culture che in quell’epoca convissero in un territorio tradizionalmente vocato agli scambi ed al sincretismo. Gli apporti di Bizantini, Arabi, Longobardi e di altre realtà etniche sono analizzati in una prospettiva multidisciplinare e su di essi si innerva la convincente ricostruzione di un panorama storiografico articolato e di assoluto rilievo
Dal “codice-dossier” al “codice-archivio”: i manoscritti Ap. Ms. I 81 e Ap. Ms. I 80 della Biblioteca comunale “Sabino Loffredo”
No full textThe codicological, palaeographical and textual analysis of two of the “books of the universitas” kept in the Municipal Library "Sabino Loffredo" of Barletta, the manuscripts AP. MS I 80 and AP. MS I 81 (XVth-XVIth centuries), clarifies that the first codex belongs to the category of the Apulian "red books", while the second codex is a dossier of the documents related to the sixteenth-century reform of the municipal statutes
Maria Bersani
No full textLa voce illustra la biografia e l'apporto letterario dato da Maria Bersani alla letteratura per l'infanziaThe headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Maria Bersani to the children's literatur
Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall'Egitto tardoantico all'Europa carolingia
No full textIl volume raccoglie sei saggi critici di Tessa Canella, Agostino Soldati, Yasmine Amory, Sophie Kovarik, Dario Internullo e Martin Hellmann, che rielaborano le relazioni di questi studiosi presentate su invito alle NOTAE project Lectures, cicli 2019-2020 e 2020-2021, organizzate come WS di discussione permanente e biennale, dal progetto ERC Advanced Grant NOTAE (GA N° 786572), PI Antonella Ghignoli
LA POÉSIE DIDACTIQUE DANS L’OEUVRE DE GIOVANNI DOTOLI : L’EXEMPLE DU DICTIONNAIRE POÉTIQUE
No full textDans cette analyse nous essayerons de comprendre si le dictionnaire poétique, choisi par Giovanni Dotoli comme forme d’expression de sa production poétique, s’insère dans le genre de la poésie didactique. La poésie didactique a sûrement le but d’enseigner quelque chose. En général, elle dispense un enseignement, mais il peut s’agir d’un enseignement de type (philosophique, moral, scientifique, technique, etc.) qui s’adapte à la structure de la poésie. Cela correspond à
la définition de poésie didactique, mais ce que nous voulons réellement comprendre dans notre analyse, c’est exactement : qu’est-ce que les savants modernes entendent par poésie didactique
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