Daria Kohler; Daniel Wakelin; Natascha Domeisen; Daniel Haywood; Edward Jones; Micah Mackay; Rosie Maxton; Brian M Moore Cambridge University Press (2025) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Cambridge University Press Sivumäärä: 300 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Painos: New ed Julkaisuvuosi: 2022, 09.06.2022 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.