Manuscripts and printed books in Europe 1350-1550 : packaging, presentation and consumption /

Manuscripts and printed books in Europe 1350-1550 : packaging, presentation and consumption /

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Imprint:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Description:xviii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Exeter studies in medieval Europe. History society and the arts
Exeter studies in medieval Europe.
Subject:
Books -- Europe -- History -- 400-1400.
Books -- Europe -- History -- 1450-1600.
Manuscripts, Medieval -- History.
Books.
Books and reading.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Europe.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9290580
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Other authors / contributors:Cayley, Emma, 1974-
Powell, Susan, 1948-
ISBN:9780859898706
0859898709
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-313) and index.
Summary:"This collaborative collection considers the 'packaging,' presentation, and consumption of medieval manuscripts and early printed books in Europe 1350-1550. By 'packaging,' we refer to the separate tasks of putting late medieval and early modern texts together (writing, abstracting, editing, correcting, illustrating, printing, and/or binding) or the repackaging of older texts for contemporary audiences. The term 'consumption' is frequently used in the context of luxury manuscripts or printed books produced for wealthy owners and may be read metaphorically to apply to a range of texts or to one text. 'Consumption' may also be treated literally: bibliophagia, or consumption by time, worms, fleas, fire, or censors. The three strands are interdependent, and highlight the materiality of the manuscript or printed book as a consumable, focusing on its 'consumability' in the sense of its packaging and presentation, its consumers, and on the act of consumption in the sense of reading and reception or literal decay. Within these thematic strands, papers variously consider the transition from script to print, bibliographic issues, and the movement between French and English texts (as well as vice versa), and audiences. The papers collected here also cover other aspects of the history of European manuscripts and printed books from 1350-1550, including the copying and circulation of models and exemplars, style, illustration, and the influence of readers and patrons, artists, scribes, printers, and gender"--Publisher description.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword: Derek Pearsall
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Section I. Packaging and Presentation: The Materiality of the Manuscript and Printed Book
  • 1. Anne Marie Lane: How can we Recognise 'Contemporary' Bookbindings of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries?
  • 2. Matti Peikola: Guidelines for Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the Mise-en-page in Later Medieval England
  • 3. Kate Maxwell: The Order of the Lays in the 'Odd' Machaut MS BnF, fr. 9221(E)
  • 4. Sonja Drimmer: Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund
  • 5. Yvonne Rode: Sixty-three Gallons of Books: Shipping Books to London in the Late Middle Ages
  • Section II. Consumers: Producers, Owners and Readers
  • 6. Anna Lewis: 'But solid food is for the mature, who ... have their senses trained to discern good and evil': John Colop's Book and the Spiritual Diet of the Discerning Lay Londoner
  • 7. Anne F. Sutton: The Acquisition and Disposal of Books for Worship and Pleasure by Mercers of London in the Later Middle Ages
  • 8. Martha Driver: 'By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng': Women and Book Production in the Early Tudor Period
  • 9. Shayne Husbands: The Roxburghe Club: Consumption, Obsession and the Passion for Print
  • Section III. Writing Consumption
  • 10. Carrie Griffin: Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality, Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional Manuscripts and Collections
  • 11. Anamaria Gellert: Fools, 'Folye' and Caxton's Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table
  • 12. John Block Friedman: Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer's Fabliaux Tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Der Ring
  • 13. Mary Morse: Alongside St Margaret: The Childbirth Cult of SS Quiricus and Julitta in Late Medieval English Manuscripts
  • 14. Emma Cayley: Consuming the Text: Pulephilia in Fifteenth-Century French Debate Poetry
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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