| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Text and transmission in Medieval Europe / Chris Bishop [and others] -- The Irish birdman: kingship and liminality in Buile Suibhne / Bridgeette Slavin -- The eunuch Narses / John Martyn -- The politics of hagiography in ninth-century Rome / Bronwen Neil -- The 'lost" literature of England: text and transmission in tenth-century Wessex / Chris Bishop -- Close to the edge: The fortunes of men and the limits of wisdom literature / Robert DiNapoli -- Perpetual devotion: interpreting Medieval Mariology / Walter Kudrycz -- Illuminating ritual texts: text, image and the creation of sacred space in Jewish manuscripts of the Iberian peninsula / Vanessa Crosby -- A ballad of twelfth day: texts and contexts / Diane Speed -- Appendix I: an edition of Twelfth day |
| Summary |
Based on a conference: Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe, this book deals with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and covers almost a millennium of European history. It attempts to reveal some truths about texts, transmission and the literacies needed to interpret them |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Literature, Medieval -- Translations -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Books.
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Literature, Medieval
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Literature, Medieval -- Translations
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Manuscripts, Medieval
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Transmission of texts
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Textgeschichte
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bishop, Chris
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| ISBN |
9781443802772 |
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1443802778 |
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1282043102 |
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9781282043107 |
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