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Bound fast with letters : medieval writers, readers, and texts / Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse ; foreword by Robert Somerville.

Van Pelt Library Z105 .R68 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rouse, Richard H.
Contributor:
Rouse, Mary A.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Manuscripts, Medieval--History.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
History.
Books--Europe--History--400-1450.
Books.
Books--History--400-1450.
Books and reading--Europe--History--To 1500.
Books and reading.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Europe.
Physical Description:
xvi, 570 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Other Title:
Medieval writers, readers, and texts
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
Contents:
I Writing it Down: Practicalities and Imagery, 500-1220
1 The Vocabulary of Wax Tablets 13
2 Donatist Aids to Bible Study: North African Literary Production in the Fifth Century / Charles McNelis McNelis, Charles 24
3 Two Carolingian Bifolia: Haimo of Auxerre and Carolingian Liturgical Texts 60
4 From Flax to Parchment: A Monastic Sermon from Twelfth-Century Durham 77
5 The Schools and the Waldensians: A New Work by Durand of Huesca 89
II Patrons and the Use of Books, 1250-1400
6 Manuscripts Belonging to Richard de Fournival 115
7 Early Manuscripts of Jean de Meun's Translation of Vegetius 139
8 Publishing Watriquet's Dits 164
9 Context and Reception: A Crusading Collection for Charles IV of France 215
10 The Goldsmith and the Peacocks: Jean de le Mote in the Household of Simon de Lille, 1340 280
11 French Literature and the Counts of Saint-Pol, ca. 1178-1377 308
12 Prudence, Mother of Virtues: The Chapelet des vertus and Christine de Pizan 357
III Commercial Book-Makers, French and Italian, 1290-1410
13 Wandering Scribes and Traveling Artists: Raulinus of Fremington and His Bolognese Bible 423
14 Thomas of Wymondswold and the Making of a Glossed Decretum 459
15 Jean Marlais and Bonne, His Wife: Last Wills from the Medieval Paris Book Trade 472
16 Pierre le Portier and the Makers of the Antiphonals of St-Jacques 494
17 St. Antoninus of Florence on Manuscript Production 512
IV Epilogue
18 Archives in the Service of Manuscript Study: The Well-Known Nicolas Flamel 525.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780268040338
0268040338
OCLC:
821025223

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