Description |
1 online resource (viii, 284 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Manchester medieval literature and culture |
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Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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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 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 21, 2018) |
Subject |
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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Literature, Medieval
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Cesario, Marilina, editor.
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Magennis, Hugh, editor.
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ISBN |
9781526107015 |
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1526107015 |
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9781526107022 |
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1526107023 |
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1526135892 |
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9781526135896 |
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