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Book SynopsisEssays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged and varied processes through which Europe's different parts entered into modern reading, writing and communicative practices, drawing on a range ofapproaches and perspectives; they consider material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the Middle Ages. Dr Aidan Conti teaches in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen; Dr Orietta Da Rold teaches in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Dr Philip Shaw teaches at the School of English, University of Leicester. Contributors: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stewart Brookes, Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Helen Fulton, Marilena Maniaci, Debora Matos, Annina Seiler, Peter A. Stokes, Nadia Togni, Svetlana Tsonkova, Matilda Watson, George Younge.
Trade Review[T]he essays provide a broad collection of works that convincingly argue for the interconnectedness of European manuscripts, language, writing, and the like. * H-NET *
Table of ContentsPreface - Orietta Da Rold and Aidan Conti and Philip A. Shaw Medieval Manuscript Studies: A European Perspective - Orietta Da Rold and Marilena Maniaci The Digipal Project for European Scripts and Decorations - Stewart Brookes and Peter A. Stokes and Matilda Watson and Debora Matos Italian Giant Bibles: The Circulation and Use of the Book at the Time of the Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Nadia Togni Isolation or Network: Arengas and Colophon Verse in Frisian Manuscripts around 1300 - Rolf H. Bremmer Writing the Germanic Languages: The Early History of the Digraphs th, ch and uu - Annina Seiler The New Heathens: Anti-Jewish Hostility in Early English Literature - George Younge Latin Composition in Medieval Norway - Aidan Conti Translating Europe in Medieval Wales - Helen Fulton Charms among the Chants: Verbal Magic in Medieval Bulgarian Manuscripts - Svetlana Tsonkova
