Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text Book

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Learning to read: the classics and the curriculum	7
3	Reading and the trivium arts	17
4	Origins and mythologies: the invention of language and meaning	45
5	Reading word by word 1: the role of the vernacular	61
6	Reading word by word 2: grammatical and rhetorical approaches	73
7	From words to the phrase: the problem of syntax	88
8	Government: the theory and practice of a grammatical concept	97
9	Rival orders of syntax: vernacular, natural and artificial	110
10	From the phrase to the text: grammatical and rhetorical approaches again	121
11	Naked intention: satire and a new kind of literal reading	135
12	Literacy: a new model for the classical text in the Middle Ages?	150
	Notes	155
	Select bibliography	207
	General index	230
	Index of manuscripts	234