Aspects of knowledge : preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages / edited by Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cesario, Marilina, editor.

Magennis, Hugh, editor.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Contents:

Part I Anthologies of Knowledge

1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission p. 23 / László Sándor Chardonnens

2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni futuri p. 53 / Marilina Cesario

3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge p. 79 / Ann Buckley

Part II Transmission of Christian Traditions

4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature p. 97 / Hugh Magennis

5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 p. 116 / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman

6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West p. 142 / Denis Renevey

7 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman p. 163 / Kath Stevenson

Part III Past and Present

8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas p. 185 / Richard North

9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook p. 210 / Emily Wingfield

Part IV Knowledge and Materiality

10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' p. 235 / Michelle P. Brown

11 Mise en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English p. 252 / Donald G. Scragg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719097843

0719097843

OCLC:

950450493