The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for study on a vast scale. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts from c.600–1500. Accessible explanations draw on key case studies to illustrate the major methodologies and explain why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage. Chapters by leading specialists in manuscript studies range from explaining how manuscripts were stored, to revealing the complex networks of readers and writers which can be understood through manuscripts, to an in depth discussion on the Wycliffite Bible.
- Chapters by leading specialists in the specific area of manuscript studies
- Interdisciplinary scholars take readers through the how and why of working with manuscripts from Britain, c.600–1500
- Extensive in coverage and clearly written, including all aspects of what manuscript studies can achieve for practitioners
Product details
December 2020Hardback
9781107102460
340 pages
236 × 160 × 25 mm
0.6kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction. The matter of manuscripts and methodologies Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne
- Part I. How Do We Study the Manuscript?:
- 1. Describing and cataloguing medieval English manuscripts: a checklist Richard Beadle and Ralph Hanna
- 2. Reading a manuscript description Donald Scragg
- 3. Reading and understanding scripts Julia Crick and Dan Wakelin
- 4. Working with images in manuscripts Beatrice Kitzinger
- 5. The sum of the book: structural codicology and medieval manuscript culture Ryan Perry
- Part II. Why Do We Study the Manuscript?:
- 6. Networks of writers and readers Elaine Treharne and Orietta Da Rold
- 7. The written word: literacy across languages Jane Gilbert and Sara Harris
- 8. The Wycliffite Bible Elizabeth Solopova
- 9. Editing medieval manuscripts for modern audiences Helen Fulton
- 10. Where were books made and kept? Tessa Webber
- Part III. Where Do We Study the Manuscript?:
- 11. Charming the snake: accessing and disciplining the medieval manuscript Sian Echard and Andrew Prescott
- 12. The curation and display of digital medieval manuscripts Suzanne Paul
- 13. The trade A. S. G. Edwards
- Further reading
- Index.
