| Description |
xviii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Exeter studies in medieval Europe. History society and the arts.
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Exeter studies in medieval Europe.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-313) and index. |
| Contents |
How can we recognize "contemporary" bookbindings of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries? / Anne Marie Lane -- Guidelines for consumption : scribal ruling patterns and designing the mise-en-page in later medieval England / Matti Peikola -- The order of the lays in the "Odd" Machaut MS BnF, fr. 9221(E) / Kate Maxwell -- Picturing the king or picturing the saint : two miniature programmes for John Lydgate's Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund / Sonja Drimmer -- Sixty-three gallons of books : shipping books to London in the late Middle Ages / Yvonne Rode -- "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 / Anna Lewis -- The acquisition and disposal of books for worship and pleasure by mercers of London in the later Middle Ages / Anne F. Sutton -- "By me Elysabeth Pykeryng" : women and book production in the early Tudor period / Martha Driver -- The Roxburghe club : consumption, obsession, and the passion for print / Shayne Husbands -- Reconsidering the recipe : materiality, narrative, and text in later medieval instructional manuscripts and collections / Carrie Griffin -- Fools, "folye," and Caxton's woodcut of the pilgrims at the table / Anamaria Gellert -- Anxieties at table : food and drink in Chaucer's fabliaux tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's Der Ring / John Block Friedman -- Alongside St. Margaret : the childbirth cult of SS Quiricus and Julitta in late medieval English manuscripts / Mary Morse -- Consuming the text : pulephilia in fifteenth-century French debate poetry / Emma Cayley. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Books -- Europe -- History -- 400-1400.
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Books. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
400-1400 |
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Books -- Europe -- History -- 1450-1600.
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| Chronological Term |
1450-1600 |
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- History.
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Manuscripts, Medieval. |
| Added Author |
Cayley, Emma, 1974-
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Powell, Susan, 1948-
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Morse, Mary (Mary L.)
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| ISBN |
9780859898706 |
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0859898709 |
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