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3.4 In nomine Patria et Filea et Spiritua Sancta:
Literacy and Linguistic Contexts 69 - 74
3.5 Approaching Visigothic Literacy 74 - 80
3.6 Visigothic Oral Culture 80 – 82
3.7 Lectio tibi sit adsidua:
The Role of Literature in Visigothic Monasteries 82 – 87
3.8 Uses of Literacy 88 – 93
3.9 Illiteracy and Aurality in the Visigothic Monastery 93 – 100
3.10 Visigothic Monasteries as Textual Communities 100 – 104
3.11 Conclusions 104 - 105
CHAPTER FOUR: LITERARY, TECHNIQUE AND STYLE IN THE MONASTIC
RULES
4.1 Introduction 106 - 107
4.2 Monastic Rules and the Concept of Literature 107 - 113
4.3 The Monastic Rules as Technical Literature 113-117
4.4 Cato‟s De Agricultura and the Monastic Rules:
A Stylistic Comparison 117-122
4.5 The Literary Abilities of Isidore and Fructuosus 122 - 125
4.6 The Oral Nature of the Language of the Monastic Rules 126 - 131
4.7.1 “Не къ невѣдущимъ бо плшемъ, но преизлѝха насьіщшемся
сладости книжньія”: The Use of Formal Literary Techniques 131 - 133
4.7.2 Alliteration 133 - 135
4.7.3 Anaphora 135 - 136
4.7.4 Hyperbaton 136 - 137
4.7.5 Polyptoton 137
4.7.6 Antithesis 137 - 138
4.8.1 Figurative Language 138 - 139
4.8.2 Figurative Language in the Common Rule: A Case Study 140 - 144
4.9.1 Synonymy and the Tumor Africus 144 - 148
4.9.2 Synonyms and Learned / Unlearned Vocabulary 148 – 151
4.9.3 The Tumor Africus 151 - 157
4.9.4 Semitic Influence 157 - 160