In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

Illich examines fundamental changes in text production in 12th century work of Hugh of St. Victor and its impact on future history of the book. Contents: 1. Reading toward Wisdom : -- Incipit; Auctoritas; Studium; Disciplina; Sapientia; Lumen; The Page as Mirror; The New Self; Amicitia 2. Order, Memory, and History : -- Never Look Down on Anything; Ordo; Artes; The Treasure Chest in the Reader's Heart; The History of Memory; The Lawyer's Skill at the Service of Prayer; Memory Training as Prelude to Wisdom; Historia as Foundation; All Creation Is Pregnant 3. Monastic Reading : -- Meditation; Communities of Mumblers; The Page as a Vineyard and Garden; Lectio as a Way of Life; Otia Monastica; The Demise of the Lectio Divina 4. Lectio in Latin : -- Latin Monasticism; Gregorian Chant; The Latin Monopoly Over Letters 5. Scholastic Reading : -- Hugh Adds a Preface; The Duty to Read; In Spite of Slender Income; The Canon Regular Edifies by His Lectio; The Flipping of the Page; The New Cleric Monopolizes Letters; Silent Reading; The Scholastic Dictatio 6. From Recorded Speech to the Record of Thought : -- The Alphabet as a Technology; From the Trace of Utterance to the Mirror of Concept; From the Comment on a Story to the Story About a Subjec; Ordinatio: Visible Patterns; Statim Inveniri: Instant Access; Alphabetic Indexing; Author Versus Compiler, Commentator, and Scribe; Layout; Illuminatio Versus Illustratio; The Portable Book 7. From Book to Text: -- Toward a History of the Text as Object; The Abstraction of the Text; Lingua and Textus; "All Things Are Pregnant."