| FT-54804-07 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Edward John Christie | Mystic Writing and the Science of the Letter: Anglo-Saxon Literacy and the Materiality of the Sign | 5/1/2007 - 7/31/2007 | $5,000.00 | Edward | John | Christie | | | | Columbia College, Missouri | Columbia | MO | 65216-0001 | USA | 2007 | Medieval Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This project examines important literary representations of writing that have remained unusually unstudied in the orality-literacy debate. By analyzing representations of the materiality of writing in hagiography, legal documents, literary riddles, and grammatical treatises, this project demonstrates the depth and consistency of the Anglo-Saxon preoccupation with writing as a sign-system which is at once conventional and absolute, material and transcendent. |