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The European book in the twelfth century / edited by Erik Kwakkel, Rodney Thomson

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Kwakkel, Erik, 1970- and Thomson, Rodney M.
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Contents
Codicology / Erik Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson -- Book script / Erik Kwakkel -- Decoration and illustration / Martin Kauffmann -- Scribes and scriptoria / Rodney Thomson -- Scholars and their books / Constant J. Mews -- The libraries of religious houses / Teresa Webber -- Modes of reading / Jenny Weston -- Practices of appropriation : writing in the margin / Mariken Teeuwen -- Hebrew books / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Liturgical books / Nicolas Bell -- Books of theology and Bible study / Lesley Smith -- Logic / John Marenbon and Caterina Tarlazzi -- Old texts in new contexts : the classical revival / Irene O'Daly -- Reading the sciences / Charles Burnett -- Medical books / Monica H. Green -- Law books / Charles Radding -- Vernacular manuscripts / Ian short, Nigel F. Palmer.
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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9781316480205 (ebook)
9781107136984 (hardback)
9781316502037 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018).
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