3 1/2 stars

Reading this so that I can sound like I know what I'm doing for an application. Really enjoying it so far. I'm reading it out of order though - I read what I needed for the application, but I think I'd like to read the rest just because.

I skipped chapter three and most of chapter two, so I can't comment on those. What I did read I found very interesting - I'm not sure her particular approach works 100% of the time, but it's unique and I found a lot of what she said about the formation of communities to be potentially useful. I also thought a lot of what she said about dissemination of texts can be found in the later medieval period too...
I also thought her second chapter was her weakest, which is why I started to skim a lot.