1 option

Mirrors of virtue : manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland / edited by Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Matthew James Driscoll.

LIBRA PT7113 .B5 v.49
Loading location information...

Available from offsite location This item is stored in our repository but can be checked out.

Log in to request item
Format:
Contributor:
Series:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • History.
Physical Description:
xix, 432 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Other Title:
Manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland
Place of Publication:
Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2017.
Summary:
"As a departure from previous practice, this volume of 'Opuscula' presents ten articles on a single theme: manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland, the period between the advent of print in the early sixteenth century to the establishment of the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service in the early twentieth. Throughout this period, manuscript transmission continued to exist side by side with print, the two media serving different, but overlapping, audiences and transmitting different, but overlapping, types of texts. The authors take their point of departure in recent developments within literary and cultural studies which focus on the artefactuality of texts and the social, historical and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed. The volume's title, 'Mirrors of virtue', refers not only to the popular late medieval and early modern genre of exemplary and/or admonitory mirror literature several examples of which are discussed but also to the idea that both manuscripts and printed books are reflections of virtue in a broader sense.
Contents:
  • Post-medieval manuscript culture and the historiography of texts / Davið Ólafsson
  • Hymnodia sacra and its influence on the 1772 Icelandic Hymnal / Árni Heimir Ingólfsson
  • Text and context: Maríukvæði in Lbs 399 4to / Katelin Parsons
  • The glacier's long shadow: Guðmundur Runólfsson and his manuscripts / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir & Katelin Parsons
  • Script and print in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Iceland: the case of Hólar i Hjaltadal / Margrét Eggertsdóttir
  • Tradition and innovation: design development in Pétur Jónsson's title pages between 1773 and 1780 / Silvia Hufnagel
  • Women's manuscript culture in Iceland, 1600-1900 / Guðrun Ingólfsdóttir
  • Pleasure and pastime: the manuscripts of Guðbrandur Sturlaugsson á Hvítadal / Matthew James Driscoll
  • Constructing cultural competence in seventeenth-century Iceland: the case of poetical miscellanies / Þórunn Sigurðardóttir
  • Permissible entertainment: the post-medieval transmission of fornaldarsaga manuscripts in western Iceland / Tereza Lansing.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-393) and indexes.
ISBN:
  • 9788763545556
  • 8763545551
OCLC:
979568172

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.