Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature The Medieval Manuscript Book 1st Edition by Johnston Michael 9781316393789 131639378X

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• ISBN 10: 131639378X
• ISBN 13: 9781316393789
• Author: Johnston Michael

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.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: manuscripts and cultural history

Chapter 2 Bibliographical theory and the textuality of the codex: toward a history of the premodern book

Chapter 3 What is a manuscript culture?

Chapter 4 Decoding the material book: cultural residue in medieval manuscripts

Chapter 5 Organizing manuscript and print: from compilatio to compilation

Chapter 6 Containing the book: the institutional afterlives of medieval manuscripts

Chapter 7 Medieval manuscripts: media archaeology and the digital incunable

Chapter 8 The circulation of texts in manuscript culture

Chapter 9 Multilingualism and late medieval manuscript culture

Chapter 10 Miscellaneity and variance in the medieval book

Chapter 11 Vernacular authorship and the control of manuscript production

Chapter 12 Medieval French and Italian literature: towards a manuscript history

Chapter 13 Afterword: social history of the book and beyond

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