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This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies
sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their
manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking
insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating
the various interconnections between medieval material and literary
traditions. The contributors' work aids reconstruction of the
period's writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the
texts provide clues to the 'manuscript experience'. Topics such as
scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page
lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner
illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while
the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript
and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of
books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership,
reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context
addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how
scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An
understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is
made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of
devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval
vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a
major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies
sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their
manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking
insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating
the various interconnections between medieval material and literary
traditions. The contributors' work aids reconstruction of the
period's writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the
texts provide clues to the 'manuscript experience'. Topics such as
scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page
lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner
illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while
the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript
and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of
books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership,
reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context
addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how
scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An
understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is
made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of
devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval
vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a
major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
Changes in words, changes in the world, and changes in minds:
transitions between states of speaking, writing, thinking, and
being are the subjects of the 14 essays in this collection, which
celebrates and was inspired by the work of Allen J. Frantzen.
Ranging from individual word-studies to investigations of artifacts
and material culture, to historical, philosophical and theological
syntheses, the essays are characterized by the same combination of
multi-disciplinarity and meticulous attention to detail as the
scholarship of the honorand. Transitional States shows how the
interplay of tradition and innovation, historical currents and
individuality, loss, memory and memorialization combine to produce
both the culture of the Middle Ages and our understanding of it.
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