The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107685987)

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.

Author: Michael Johnston
ISBN-10: 1107685982
ISBN-13: 9781107685987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2017
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d