Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts

New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.

List of contents

Introduction - Elaine Treharne
The Composite Nature of Eleventh-Century Homiliaries: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 421 - Erika Corradini
The Power and the Glory: Conquest and Cosmology in Edwardian Wales [Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3514] - Julia C Crick
Manuscript Production before Chaucer: Some Preliminary Observations - Orietta Da Rold
The Ellesmere Manuscript: Controversy, Culture and the Canterbury Tales - A S G Edwards
Vanishing Transliteracies in Beowulf and Samuel Pepys's Diary - Martin Foys and Whitney Anne Trettien
Descriptive Bibliography and Electronic Publication - David L. Gants
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 647 and its Use, c. 1410-2010 - Ralph Hanna
The Idea of the Heart in Byzantium and the History of the Book - Robert Romanchuk
Red as a Textual Element during the Transition from Manuscript to Print - Margaret Smith
Problematising Textual Authority in the York Register - Liberty Stanavage

Product details

• Authors: Orietta Da Rold
• Assisted by: Orietta Da Rold (Editor), Elaine Treharne (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2010
• EAN: 9781843842392
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-239-2
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 223 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)