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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments - The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books (Paperback)
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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments - The Destruction and Reconstruction of Medieval Books (Paperback)
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Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance
survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated
than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as
bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such
fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into
the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the
opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume
concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin
manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection
of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence
about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific
relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of
Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this
volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key
role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition
and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish
locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative
approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly
medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help
illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts
through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment.
In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first
appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and
rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the
history of the medieval book.
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