Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Orality, Literacy, and the Sense of the Past
Ch. 1. History, Literature, Textuality
Ch. 2. Medieval Literacy, Linguistic Theory, and Social Organization
Ch. 3. Romantic Attitudes and Academic Medievalism
Ch. 4. Literary Discourse and the Social Historian
Ch. 5. Language and Culture: Saussure, Ricoeur, and Foucault
Ch. 6. Max Weber, Western Rationality, and the Middle Ages
Ch. 7. Textual Communities: Judaism, Christianity, and the Definitional Problem
Ch. 8. Tradition and Modernity: Models from the Past
Notes
Index