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Bound Fast with Letters - Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts (Hardcover)
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Bound Fast with Letters - Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts (Hardcover)
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Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the
significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse
have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval
manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission and
manuscript production. The eighteen essays collected here address
medieval authors, craftsmen, book producers, and patrons of
manuscripts from different epochs in the Middle Ages, extending
from late antiquity to the early Renaissance, and ranging from
North Africa to northern England. Their investigations reveal
valuable information about the history of texts and their
transmission, and their careful scrutiny of texts and of the
physical manuscripts that convey them illuminate the societies that
created, read, and preserved these objects. The book begins in Part
I with articles on writers from the patristic era through the
twelfth century who experimented with, and mastered, various
physical forms of presenting ideas in writing. Part II contains
essays on patronage and patrons, including Richard de Fournival,
Jean de Brienne, Watriquet de Couvin, Pope Clement V, the Counts of
Saint-Pol, and Christine de Pizan. Part III, on manuscript
producers, discusses the questions, for whom? and by whom? were
manuscripts made. The four essays in this section each reflect on a
different part of the process of book-making. Throughout, Bound
Fast with Letters focuses on the close ties between the physical
remains of literate culture-from the wax tablets of the patristic
era to the vernacular literature of the wealthy laity of the late
Middle Ages-and their social and economic context.
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