Looking At Medieval Books - Learning to See

An essential guide for those learning to work with medieval manuscripts on how to examine these complex and unique books. It teaches the beginner to how to proceed, looking at shape, size, type, scribal marks and indications of provenance. With lots of examples, the emphasis is on visual examination - learning to see.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His books include Editing Medieval Texts (Liverpool University Press, 2015), Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers (Liverpool University Press, 2013) and Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings (Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Zusammenfassung

Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ralph Hanna
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781836243434
• ISBN: 978-1-83624-343-4
• Seiten: 176
• Serie: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Innenarchitektur, Design