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Full Description
This collection, which brings together scholars
from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing
authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping
reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript
culture.
Contents
List of Figures
Editorial Principles
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction by the Editors
Part 1: Constructing Bodies of Knowledge
Juridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence by Mario Ascheri and Paola Maffei
Prefaces in Canon Law Books by Gisela Drossbach
"Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio": Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia by Isabelle Draelants
Part 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating Practice
From Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine by Concetta Pennuto
Immortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks by Hanna Wimmer
Writing in the Margin—Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists by Joanna Frońska
Structuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l'âme by Guillaume de Deguileville by Géraldine Veysseyre
Part 3: Adopting Tradition, Empowering Readers
From Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil by Sinéad O'Sullivan
Translating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts by Anne D. Hedeman
Paratext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien by Victoria Turner
Prefaces and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts by Rosalind Brown-Grant
Part 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the Book
Visualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries by Alison Stones
Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel by Outi Merisalo
Book Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext by Patrizia Carmassi
List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions Cited
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index



