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Franciscan Books and their Readers - Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy (Hardcover)
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Franciscan Books and their Readers - Friars and Manuscripts in Late Medieval Italy (Hardcover)
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Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts
written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth
to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically
Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and
readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that
determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the
development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed
by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of
representative manuscripts read, written and manufactured by the
friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans
were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript
as a portable, personal library and as a tool for learning and
pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua's
reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first
time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking
cultural agency of medieval friars.
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