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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts - The Phenomenal Book (Hardcover)
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts - The Phenomenal Book (Hardcover)
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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an
understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point
of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most
profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means
readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript
in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex
to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made
through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of
the book's life from the moment of its production to its use,
collection, breaking-up, and digitization-all aspects of what can
be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. The ten chapters include
detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript
manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book
that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and
consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts' blank
spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing
how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts'
heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature
books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become
archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best
read as 'relics of existence', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes
things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the
manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood
in the context of the book's wholeness. Readers of this study will
find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the
distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future
continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.
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