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Title Aspects of knowledge : preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages / edited by Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series Manchester medieval literature and culture
Manchester medieval literature and culture.
Contents Part I. Anthologies of knowledge. 1. Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission / László Sándor Chardonnens -- 2. Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni futuri / Marilina Cesario -- 3. The Cambridge songs as anthology of musical knowledge / Ann Buckley -- Part II. Transmission of Christian traditions. 4. Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature / Hugh Magennis -- 5. Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman -- 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West / Denis Renevey -- 7. 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman / Kath Stevenson -- Part III. Past and present. 8. Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas / Richard North -- 9. Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook / Emily Wingfield -- Part IV. Knowledge and materiality. 10. The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' / Michelle P. Brown -- 11. Mise en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English / Donald G. Scragg
Summary This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge and ideas throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by leading medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering diverse interdisciplinary and multi-cultural approaches on a wide variety of subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 21, 2018)
Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
Literature, Medieval
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Cesario, Marilina, editor.
Magennis, Hugh, editor.
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