Writing in Context : Insular Manuscript Culture 500-1200 (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture)

Kwakkel, Erik (EDT)

Leiden University Press（2013/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789087281823
• DDC分類 900

Full Description

This book comprises six essays by prominent scholars of medieval Insular manuscripts. The main emphasis is on the physical appearance of books, though writing on and in other objects is also discussed. The essays highlight, in different ways, the tight relationship between the palaeographical and codicological features of manuscripts and the culture in which the objects were produced and used. Extending their expertise to a broad audience interested in the medieval book, the contributors discuss various aspects of written culture, 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.
Contributions by Michelle Brown, David Dumville, Mary Garrison, Kathryn Lowe, Francis Newton and Teresa Webber.

Contents

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