The medieval manuscript book : cultural approaches / edited by Michael Johnston, Michael Van Dussen.
"Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
94. |
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| Summary: | "Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The Medieval Manuscript Book redresses this by focusing on aspects of the medieval book in its cultural situations. Written by experts in the study of the handmade book before print, this volume combines bibliographical expertise with broader insights into the theory and praxis of manuscript study in areas from bibliography to social context, linguistics to location, and archaeology to conservation. The focus of the contributions ranges widely, from authorship to miscellaneity, and from vernacularity to digital facsimiles of manuscripts. Taken as a whole, these essays make the case that to understand the manuscript book it must be analyzed in all its cultural complexity, from production to transmission to its continued adaptation"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107588851 1107588855 9781316398647 1316398641 9781316400845 1316400840 1316398102 9781316398104 1107685982 9781107685987 9781316400302 1316400301 1316399761 9781316399767 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781107588851 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |