Fr. 135.00

Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550 - Packaging, Presentation and Consumption

English · Hardback

Will be released 15.04.2013

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Informationen zum Autor Emma Cayley is Senior Lecturer in French and Head of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter; Susan Powell holds a Chair in Medieval Texts and Culture in the School of Languages and Social Sciences at the University of Salford. Klappentext This collaborative collection considers the packaging! presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe! 1350-1550. Zusammenfassung This collaborative collection considers the packaging! presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe! 1350-1550. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements - Emma Cayley and Susan Powell Preface - Derek Pearsall List of Plates Section I: Packaging and Presentation: The Materiality of the Manuscript and Printed Book * Anne Marie Lane: 'How can we Recognise "Contemporary" Bookbindings of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries?' * Matti Peikola: 'Guidelines for Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the mise-en-page in later Medieval England' * Kate Maxwell: 'The Order of the Lays in the "Odd" Machaut MS BnF fr. 9221(E)' * Sonja Drimmer: 'Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund' * Yvonne Rode: 'Sixty-three Gallons of Books: Shipping Books to London in the Late Middle Ages' Section II: Consumers: Producers! Owners! and Readers * Anna Lewis: '"But solid food is for the mature! who ...have their senses trained to discern good and evil": John Colop's Book and the Spiritual Diet of the Discerning Lay Londoner' * Anne Sutton: 'The Acquisition and Disposal of Books for Worship and Pleasure by Mercers of London in the Later Middle Ages' * Martha Driver: '"By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng": Women and Printing in the Early Tudor Period' * Shayne Husbands: 'The Roxburghe Club: Consumption! Obsession and the Passion for Print' Section III - Consuming the Text: Writing Consumption * Carrie Griffin: 'Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality! Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional MSS and Collections' * Anamaria Gellert: 'Fools! "Folye" and Caxton's Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table' * John B. Friedman: 'Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer's Fabliaux Tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Der Ring' * Mary Morse: 'Alongside St. Margaret: The Childbirth Cult of SS Quiricus and Julitta in Late Medieval English Manuscripts' * Emma Cayley: 'Consuming the Text: Pulephilia in Fifteenth-Century French Debate Poetry' ...

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Authors Emma Cayley, Emma (EDT)/ Powell Cayley
Assisted by Emma Cayley (Editor), Emma (Department of Modern Languages Cayley (Editor), Susan Powell (Editor), Susan (School of Arts & Media Powell (Editor)
Publisher University Of Chicago Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 15.04.2013, delayed
 
EAN 9780859898706
ISBN 978-0-85989-870-6
No. of pages 352
Series Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe
Exeter Studies in Medieval Eur
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages

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