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The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume 2, 1100-1400 / edited by Nigel J. Morgan, Rodney M. Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--Great Britain--History--400-1450.
- Books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 615 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); its purpose and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for elementary and advanced instruction, for courtly entertainment); and as the vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music). In all of this, the broader, changing social and cultural context is kept in mind, and so are the various connections with continental Europe. The volume includes a full bibliography and 80 black and white plates.
- Contents:
- Preface / Rodney M. Thomson and Nigel Morgan
- The roles of books
- Books and society / Christopher de Hamel
- Language and literacy / Rodney M. Thomson and Nigel Morgan
- Book production
- The format of books
- Layout and presentation of the text / M.B. Parkes
- Technology of production of the manuscript book
- Parchment and paper, ruling and ink / Rodney M. Thomson
- Illumination
- Bookbindings / Michael Gullick and Nicholas Hadgraft
- Handwriting in English books / M.B. Parkes
- Monastic and cathedral book production / Rodney M. Thomson
- Urban production of manuscript books and the role of the university towns / M.A. Michael
- Readership, libraries, texts and contexts
- Library catalogues and indexes / Richard Sharpe
- University and monastic texts
- Biblical exegesis, theology, and philosophy / Jeremy Catto
- Latin learning and Latin literature / Jan Ziolkowski
- Encyclopaedias / Michael Twomey
- Law / Nigel Ramsay
- Books for the liturgy and private prayer / Nigel Morgan
- Compilations for preaching and Lollard literature
- Compilations for preaching / Alan J. Fletcher
- Lollard literature / Anne Hudson
- Spiritual writings and religious instruction / Alexandra Barratt
- Vernacular literature and its readership
- The Anglo-Norman book / Tony Hunt
- Middle English literary writings, 1150-1400 / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards
- The Welsh book / Daniel Huws
- History and history books / Geoffrey Martin and Rodney M. Thomson
- Archive books / Nigel Ramsay
- Scientific and medical writings
- The introduction of scientific texts into Britain, c. 1100-1250 / Charles Burnett
- University books and the sciences, c.1250-1400 / Peter Murray Jones
- Music / Nicolas Bell
- Illustration and ornament / Martin Kauffmann.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139054201 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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