Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book : The Power of Paratexts / Rosalind Brown-Grant, Patrizia Carmassi, Gisela Drossbach, Anne D. Hedeman, Victoria Turner, Iolanda Ventura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown-Grant, Rosalind, Editor.

Carmassi, Patrizia, Editor.

Drossbach, Gisela, Editor.

Hedeman, Anne D., Editor.

Turner, Victoria, Editor.

Ventura, Iolanda, Editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; LXVI.

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geistesgeschichte.

Intellectual History.

Macht.

Manuskript.

Medieval Manuscripts.

Mittelalter.

Paratext.

Power.

Local Subjects:

Geistesgeschichte.

Intellectual History.

Macht.

Manuskript.

Medieval Manuscripts.

Mittelalter.

Paratext.

Power.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 395 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features - annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles - are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Editorial Principles

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Constructing Bodies of Knowledge

1. Juridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence / Ascheri, Mario / Maffei, Paola

2. Prefaces in Canon Law Books / Drossbach, Gisela

3. "Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio:" Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia / Draelants, Isabelle

Part 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating Practice

4. From Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine / Pennuto, Concetta

5. Immortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks / Wimmer, Hanna

6. Writing in the Margin - Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists / Frońska, Joanna

7. Structuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l'âme by Guillaume de Deguileville / Veysseyre, Géraldine

Part 3: Framing Knowledge, Empowering Readers

8. From Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil / O'Sullivan, Sinéad

9. Translating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts / Hedeman, Anne D.

10. Paratext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien / Turner, Victoria

11. Prologues and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts / Brown-Grant, Rosalind

Part 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the Book

12. Visualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries / Stones, Alison

13. Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel / Merisalo, Outi

14. Book Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext / Carmassi, Patrizia

List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions Cited

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Jan 2020)

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ISBN:

9781501513329

150151332X

9781501513114

1501513117

OCLC:

1138524909