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This book sheds light on the fragments from Latin manuscripts as sources to determine the establishment and development of European book culture in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. It investigates the potential, but also the challenges involved in using book fragments to increase the knowledge of the past.
Sommario
1. Piecing Together the Past: The Accidental Manuscript Collections of the North
[Tuomas Heikkilä and Åslaug Ommundsen]
2. Reflections on Nordic Latin Fragment Studies Past and Present Together with Three Case Studies
[Michael Gullick]
3. The Recycling of Manuscripts in Sixteenth-Century Sweden
[Jan Brunius]
4. From Fragments Towards the Big Picture: Reconstructing Medieval Book Culture in Finland
[Tuomas Heikkilä]
5. The Problem of the Provenance of Medieval Manuscript Fragments in Danish Archives
[Michael H. Gelting]
6. A Norwegian – and European – Jigsaw Puzzle of Manuscript Fragments
[Åslaug Ommundsen]
7. Latin Fragments Related to Iceland
[Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson]
8. Danish Fragments in Norway and their Connections to Twelfth-Century Lund
[Åslaug Ommundsen]
9. Iceland and Norway: Separate Scribal Cultures versus Cultural Exchange
[Gisela Attinger]
10. Birgittine Books in the Nordic Fragment Collections
[Ville Walta]
Info autore
Åslaug Ommundsen is a researcher and project leader at the University of Bergen.
Tuomas Heikkilä is the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome. He holds docentships at the Universities of Helsinki (general and church history) and Turku (Finnish history).
Riassunto
This book sheds light on the fragments from Latin manuscripts as sources to determine the establishment and development of European book culture in Scandinavia in the Middle Ages. It investigates the potential, but also the challenges involved in using book fragments to increase the knowledge of the past.
