In the vineyard of the text : a commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon / Ivan Illich.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-154).

Reading toward wisdom : Incipit -- Auctoritas -- Studium -- Disciplina -- Sapientia -- Lumen -- The page as a mirror -- The new self -- Amicitia -- 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 -- Monastic reading : Meditation -- Communities of mumblers -- The page as a vineyard and garden -- Lecito as a way of life -- Otio monastica -- The demise of the lectio divina -- Lectio in Latin : Latin monasticism -- Gregorian chant -- The Latin monopoly over letters -- Scholastic reading : Hugh add 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 leric monopolizes letters -- Silent reading -- The scholastic dictatio -- From the 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 subject -- Ordinatio visible patterns -- Statim inverni instant access -- Authore versus compiler, commentatot, and scribe -- Layout -- Illuminatio versus illustratio -- The portable book -- From book to text : Toward a history of the text as object -- The abstraction of the text -- Lingua and textus -- "All things are pregnant."

In the Vineyard, as in all of Illich's writings, the search runs through accepted certainties, whatever their times and places, questioning them for truths still valid in the formation of personal wisdom.