Title The European book in the twelfth century / edited by Erik Kwakkel (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Rodney Thomson (University of Tasmania)

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 409 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 101 Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 101. Contents Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Book Production; 1 Codicology; 2 Book Script; 3 Decoration and Illustration; 4 Scribes and Scriptoria; Part II Readers and Their Books; 5 Scholars and Their Books; 6 The Libraries of Religious Houses; 7 Modes of Reading; 8 Practices of Appropriation: Writing in the Margin; Part III Types of Books; 9 Hebrew Books; 10 Liturgical Books; 11 Books of Theology and Bible Study; 12 Logic; 13 The Classical Revival 14 Reading the Sciences15 Medical Books; 16 Law Books; 17 Vernacular Manuscripts I: Britain and France; 18 Vernacular Manuscripts II: Germany; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Manuscripts, Medieval -- Europe, Western Books -- Europe, Western -- History -- 400-1450 Books and reading -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500 Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500. ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General. Books Books and reading Learning and scholarship -- Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval Western Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Kwakkel, Erik, 1970- editor Thomson, Rodney M., editor. ISBN 9781108637572 9781316480205 1108637574 1316480208

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