The text in the community : essays on medieval works, manuscripts, authors, and readers / edited by Jill Mann & Maura Nolan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Jill.

Nolan, Maura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Manuscripts, Medieval--History.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2006]

Summary:

The Text in the Community brings together essays by a diverse group of medievalists to consider the multiple ways in which readers approach texts and manuscripts as part of "communities" of readers, authors, scribes, and scholars. The central premise of this volume is that texts do not exist in isolation. Each written work is embedded in contexts-literary, historical, geographical, social, political, and religious-and derives its meaning in part from the intersection of those contexts in the reader's experience of the text.

This collection is distinguished by a range of approaches to the study of medieval texts and manuscripts and by the capacious time frame in which they are located, extending from the Anglo-Saxon period to the fifteenth century. Contributors demonstrate ways in which the insights gained from careful attention to the material as well as verbal dimensions of medieval texts can extend and complicate our notions of the literary tradition, medieval reading practices and audiences, and modes of composition.

Contents:

Versifying the Bible in the Middle Ages / Michael Lapidge

"He knew Nat Catoun" : medieval school-texts and Middle English literature / Jill Mann

Computing Cynewulf : the Judith-connection / Andy Orchard

The contexts of Notre Dame / A.S.G. Edwards

The haunted text : ghostly reflections in A mirror to devout people / Vincent Gillespie

The visual environment of Carthusian texts : decoration and illustration in Notre Dame 67 / Jessica Brantley

The knight and the rose : French manuscripts in the Notre Dame library / Maureen Boulton

The Meditations on the life of Christ : an illuminated fourteenth-century Italian manuscript at the University of Notre Dame / Dianne Phillips.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0268034958

0268034966

OCLC:

62421264