Edition:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 616 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781139054201
Content:
This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); its purpose and readership (books for monasteries, for the Church's liturgy, for elementary and advanced instruction, for courtly entertainment); and as the vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music). In all of this, the broader, changing social and cultural context is kept in mind, and so are the various connections with continental Europe. The volume includes a full bibliography and 80 black and white plates
In:
2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978052178218X
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge history of the book in Britain ; 2: 1100 - 1400 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008 ISBN 052178218X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521782180
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge history of the book in Britain ; Vol. 2: 1100 - 1400 Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008 ISBN 052178218X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107636767
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521782180
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521782180
Author information:
Morgan, Nigel J. 1942-
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