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Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts,
and their creators. This exciting collection of essays is centred
on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new
insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including
Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton and
Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known texts and manuscripts. It
also considers medieval books, their producers, readers, and
collectors. It is thus a fitting tribute to one the foremost
scholars of the history of the book, Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya,
whom it honours. Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and
Literature at the University of Oxford; Linne Mooney is Professor
of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department of English and
Related Literature at the University of York. Contributors: Timothy
Graham, Richard Firth Green, Carrie Griffin, Gareth Griffith,
Phillipa Hardman, John Hirsh, Simon Horobin, Terry Jones, Takako
Kato, Linne R. Mooney, Mary Morse, James J. Murphy, Natalia
Petrovskaia, Susan Powell, Ad Putter, Michael G. Sargent, Eric
Stanley, Mayumi Taguchi, Isamu Takahashi, Satoko Tokunaga, R.F.
Yeager
Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted
from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers
textual and material strategies for the presentation and
organisation of written knowledge and information during the
period. In particular, it investigates the relationship between
genre and material form in Anglophone written knowledge and
information, with specific reference to that which is usually
classified as practical or 'utilitarian'. Carrie Griffin examines
textual and material evidence to argue for the disentangling of
hitherto mixed genres and forms, and the creation of 'new' texts,
as unexplored effects of the arrival of the printing press in the
late fifteenth century. Griffin interrogates the texts at the level
of generic markers, frameworks and structures, and studies
transmission and dissemination in print, the nature of and
attitudes to printed books, and the audiences they reached, in
order to determine shifting attitudes to books and texts. Learning
and Information from Manuscript to Print makes a significant
contribution to the study of so-called non-literary textual genres
and their transmission, circulation and reception in manuscript and
in early modern printed books.
Exploring the nature of utilitarian texts in English transmitted
from the later Middle Ages to c. 1650, this volume considers
textual and material strategies for the presentation and
organisation of written knowledge and information during the
period. In particular, it investigates the relationship between
genre and material form in Anglophone written knowledge and
information, with specific reference to that which is usually
classified as practical or 'utilitarian'. Carrie Griffin examines
textual and material evidence to argue for the disentangling of
hitherto mixed genres and forms, and the creation of 'new' texts,
as unexplored effects of the arrival of the printing press in the
late fifteenth century. Griffin interrogates the texts at the level
of generic markers, frameworks and structures, and studies
transmission and dissemination in print, the nature of and
attitudes to printed books, and the audiences they reached, in
order to determine shifting attitudes to books and texts. Learning
and Information from Manuscript to Print makes a significant
contribution to the study of so-called non-literary textual genres
and their transmission, circulation and reception in manuscript and
in early modern printed books.
The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience
of reading, from the late medieval period to the twentieth century.
Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how
the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto - affects the
experience of the person reading it.
The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience
of reading, from the late medieval period to the twentieth century.
Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality: how
the physical object - book, manuscript, libretto - affects the
experience of the person reading it.
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