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Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the
printed book: in Venice, Europe's capital of printing, he invented
the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than
anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the
most beautiful and mysterious printed book of the Italian
Renaissance. This is the first monograph in English on Aldus
Manutius in over forty years. It shows how Aldus redefined the role
of a book printer, from mere manual labourer to learned publisher.
As a consequence Aldus participated in the same debates as
contemporaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus of Rotterdam,
making this book an insight into their world too.
Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his
legends. This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the
Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and
later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw
materials", such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on
productions of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. A distinctive
feature of the volume's coverage is the diversity of Latin textual
environments and genres that the contributors examine in their
work,including chronicles, liturgy and pseudo-histories, as well as
apologetical treatises and works of hagiography and literature.
Perhaps most importantly, the book examines the "many lives" that
Charlemagne was believed to have lived by successive generations of
medieval Latin writers, for whom he was not only a king and an
emperor but also a saint, a crusader, and, indeed, a necrophiliac.
William J. Purkis is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the
University of Birmingham; Matthew Gabriele is an Associate
Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of Religion &
Culture at Virginia Tech. Contributors: Jeffrey Doolittle, Matthew
Gabriele, Miguel Dolan Gomez, Oren Margolis, William J. Purkis,
Andrew J. Romig, Sebastian Salvado, Jace Stuckey, James Williams.
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