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Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits. While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text out of words. By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’ understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen, patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribes reach out to us across time with a simple but profound directive: Remember the hand. Remember the Hand is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

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It's almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters. Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at the Bones Bakery where the ovens are busy cooking up Yummytastic Bone Biscuits for Christmas. Grandpa Angus delivers these in his VW Campervan, but he also needs to call on their help. Finding reindeer in Westie Woods, a search to find Santa, and the Tree of Awesomeness all add to the ingredients, making this Magical Christmas Adventure almost as tasty as Grandma Soozie's Christmas pudding and its hidden treasure. But can the little trio help rescue Christmas?

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