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Remember the Hand - Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (Hardcover)
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Remember the Hand - Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (Hardcover)
Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books
from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and
eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices
have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name
themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits.
While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature
of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully
known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for
prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the
reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing
but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or
textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text
out of words. By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to
a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside
that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’
understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between
many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen,
patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images
before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as
the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us
of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribes
reach out to us across time with a simple but profound directive:
Remember the hand. Remember the Hand is available from the
publisher on an open-access basis.
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