Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts

by Da Rold, Orietta; Treharne, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9781843842392
• ISBN10: 1843842394
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-16
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and material approaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and reception across time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed focus on individual cases can yield important new findings. Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick, Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Notes On Contributors	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Composite Nature of Eleventh-Century Homiliaries: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 421	p. 5
The Power and the Glory: Conquest and Cosmology in Edwardian Wales (Exeter, Cathedral Library 3514)	p. 21
Manuscript Production Before Chaucer: Some Preliminary Observations	p. 43
The Ellesmere Manuscript: Controversy, Culture and the Canterbury Tales	p. 59
Vanishing Transliteracies in Beowulf and Samuel Pepys's Diary	p. 75
Descriptive Bibliography and Electronic Publication	p. 121
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 647 and its Use, c.1410-2010	p. 141
The Idea of the Heart in Byzantium and the History of the Book	p. 163
Red as a Textual Element During the Transition from Manuscript to Print	p. 187
Problematising Textual Authority in the York Register	p. 201
Index	p. 217
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