Writing in Context: Insular Manuscript Culture 500-1200

ISBN-13: 9789087281823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.

Erik Kwakkel

Opis

Gathering essays from prominent scholars of medieval insular manuscripts, "Writing in Context" explores various aspects of written culture, with the emphasis on the physical appearance, including the development of insular scripts, book culture in Mercia, the layout of Anglo-Saxon charters, and the transition from Anglo-Saxon to Norman-inspired script and book production. Ultimately, the book highlights, in different ways, the relationship between the paleographical and codicological features of manuscripts and the culture in which the objects were produced and used.

Spis treści

Preface
List of Figures and Plates
Abbreviations
Writing in Context: Introduction
(Erik Kwakkel)Mercian Manuscripts: The Implications of the Staffordshire Hoard, other Recent Discoveries, and the ‘New Materiality’
(Michelle P. Brown)An Insular Copy of Pliny’s Naturalis historia (Leiden VLF 4 fols 4-33)
(Mary Garrison) A Giant Among Scribes: Colophon and Iconographical Programme in the Eadui Gospels
(Francis Newton) Reading the Unreadable: Lay Literacy and Negotiation of Text in Anglo-Saxon England
(Kathryn A. Lowe) English Manuscripts in the Century after the Norman Conquest: Continuity and Change in the Palaeography of Books and Book Collections
(Teresa Webber) Hidden in Plain Sight: Continental Scribes in Rochester Cathedral Priory, 1075-1150
(Erik Kwakkel) Notes on the Contributors
Colour Plates
Index of Manuscripts
General Index