The European book in the twelfth century / edited by Erik Kwakkel (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Rodney Thomson (University of Tasmania).
"The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Ren...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
101. |
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| Summary: | "The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781108637572 9781316480205 1108637574 1316480208 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781316480205 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |