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 | The Carolingians and the Written Word (1st Edition) by Rosamond Mckitterick Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-521-31565-4 / 0521315654 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-31565-4 / 9780521315654 This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth- and ninth-centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical élite, but was dispersed in lay society and used for government and administr | |