Description
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the role of ‘texts’ – including books, maps, stones and caskets – in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by top medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering interdisciplinary approaches to a variety of subjects.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis
Part I: Anthologies of knowledge
1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission – László Sándor Chardonnens
2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future – Marilina Cesario
3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge – Ann Buckley
Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions
4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature – Hugh Magennis
5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100–1300 – Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman
6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West – Denis Renevey
7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’: texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman – Kath Stevenson
Part III: Past and present
8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas – Richard North
9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook – Emily Wingfield
Part IV: Knowledge and materiality
10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified ‘book’ – Michelle P. Brown
11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English – Donald G. Scragg
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