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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.

Paper in Medieval England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Paper in Medieval England

Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.

Makers and Users of Medieval Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Makers and Users of Medieval Books

Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal, Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John J. Thompson.

Writing Europe, 500-1450
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Writing Europe, 500-1450

Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

A compact collection of focused introductions to and inquiries into medieval England, representing both history and literature.

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment. Through contributions from a large group of distinguished international scholars, the volume assesses the impact of being able to access and interpret these early manuscripts in new ways. The focus on Parker on the Web, a world-class digital repository of diverse medieval manuscripts, comes as that site made its contents Open Access. Exploring the uses of digital representations of medieval texts and their contexts, contributors consider manuscripts from multiple perspectives includ...

The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

The Production of Books in England 1350-1500

This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.

Progress and Problems in Medieval England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Progress and Problems in Medieval England

A series of essays on the society and economy of England between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D’Israeli’s gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be ‘called working’. Whereas previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour. It questions assumed areas of affinity and difference, beginning with the labour politics of the early nineteenth century and their common root in the French Revolution. It also scrutinises the received view of France as a source of a ‘leisure ethic’, and of British writers as either rejecting or self-consciously mimicking French models. Individual essays consider examples of how different writers approached their work, while also evoking a broader notion of ‘work ethics’, understood as a humane practice, whereby values, benefits, and responsibilities, are weighed up.

Storylistening
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Storylistening

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Storylistening makes the case for the urgent need to take stories seriously in order to improve public reasoning. Dillon and Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science. Focusing on the cognitive and the collective, Dillon and Craig show how stories offer alternative points of view, create and cohere collective identities, function as narrative models, and play a crucial role in anticipation. They explore these four functions in areas of public reasoning where decisions are strongly influenced by contentious knowledge and powerful imaginings: climate change, artific...