{"product_id":"aspects-of-knowledge-9780719097843","title":"Aspects of Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction – Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Anthologies of knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission – László Sándor Chardonnens\u003cbr\u003e2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: \u003ci\u003eLibellus de disposicione totius anni future\u003c\/i\u003e – Marilina Cesario\u003cbr\u003e3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge – Ann Buckley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Transmission of Christian traditions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 \u003ci\u003eCristes leorningcnihtas\u003c\/i\u003e: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature – Hugh Magennis\u003cbr\u003e5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100–1300 – Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman\u003cbr\u003e6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West – Denis Renevey\u003cbr\u003e7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’: texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e – Kath Stevenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Past and present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eAndreas\u003c\/i\u003e – Richard North\u003cbr\u003e9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s \u003ci\u003eVita\u003c\/i\u003e to the Blackadder Prayerbook – Emily Wingfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Knowledge and materiality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified ‘book’ – Michelle P. Brown\u003cbr\u003e11 \u003ci\u003eMis en page\u003c\/i\u003e: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English – Donald G. Scragg\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037356458327,"sku":"9780719097843","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719097843.jpg?v=1750935421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aspects-of-knowledge-9780719097843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}