Format:
XXI, 338, XII S.
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Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:
9782503534732
Series Statement:
Studies in the early Middle Ages 9
Content:
This volume is about the book itself, as shaped and made by medieval scribes and as conditioned by the cultural understandings that were present in the world where those scribes lived. Questions relating to the provenance, compilation, script, function, and use - both medieval and modern - of manuscripts are raised and are resolved in a fresh manner. A number of different literary genres and types are explored, ranging from devotional materials (e.g. psalters, sermons, and illustrated gospel books) to texts of a more worldly orientation. A number of plates illustrate the work of particular scribes. While some beautiful codices are showcased, the emphasis falls on plain books written in English, including the Vercelli Book, the Exeter Book, and the Blickling Homilies. Analyses of the history of palaeography and the theoryof editing raise the point that whatever we know from old books is conditioned by the tools used to study them
Note:
Publications of A. N. Doane ; Introduction
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The eastwardness of things: relationships between the Christian cultures of the Middle East and the insular world
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The Wiþ Dweorh Charms in MS Harley 585: a union of text and voice
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The fonthill ghost word, the fonthill thief, and early West Saxon scribal culture
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The blickling homilies revisited: knowable and probable uses of Princeton University Library, MS Scheide 71
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Four contiguous poems in the Exeter Book: a combined reading of 'Homiletic Fragment III, Soul and Body II, Deor, and Wulf and Eadwacer'
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The inscribed form of 'Exeter Maxims' and the layout of Quire XI of the Exeter Book
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The Vercelli book revisited
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The Canterbury Psalter, Christ Church, and the last Old English Psalter gloss
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The beginnings of the Middle English secular lyric: texts, music, manuscript context
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Old English manuscripts, their scribes, and their punctuation
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The good, the bad, the ugly: Old English manuscripts and their physical description
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Editorial certainty and the editor's choice
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Notes on contributors ; Plates ; Index of manuscripts cited ; Index of modern scholars ; General index.
Former:
Festschrift Alger Nicolaus Doane
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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English Studies
Keywords:
England
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Handschrift
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Schreiber
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Mittelalter
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England
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Handschrift
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Schreiber
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Doane, Alger N. 1938-
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Festschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Bibliografie
Author information:
Doane, Alger N. 1938-
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