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This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible
introduction to the medieval manuscript and what it can tell us
about the world in which it was made and used. Captured in the
materiality of manuscripts are the data enabling us to make sense
of the preferences and habits of the individuals who made up
medieval society. With short chapters grouped under thematic
headings, Books Before Print shows how we may tap into the evidence
and explores how manuscripts can act as a vibrant and versatile
tool to understand the deep historical roots of human interaction
with written information. It highlights extraordinary continuities
between medieval book culture and modern-world communication, as
witnessed in medieval pop-up books, posters, speech bubbles, book
advertisements, and even sticky notes.
The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and
Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent.
Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval
authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated
questions raised by the relationship between an author and a
reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents,
and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical
presentation of texts in books.The broad chronological range within
this volume reveals the persistence of literary concerns that
remain consistent through different periods, languages, and
cultural contexts. Theoretical reflections, case studies from a
wide variety of languages, examinations of devotional literature
from figures such as Bishop Reginald Pecock, and analyses of works
that are more secular in focus, including some by Chaucer and
Christine de Pizan, come together in this volume to transcend
linguistic and disciplinary boundaries.
The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal
importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and
marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This
comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during
the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to
provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of
Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided
into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the
processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the
transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant
change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy,
and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first
in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.
The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal
importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and
marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This
comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during
the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to
provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of
Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided
into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the
processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the
transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant
change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy,
and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first
in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.
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