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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua's reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Franciscans -- Italy -- Padua -- Manuscripts -- History.
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Franciscans. |
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Italy -- Padua. |
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Manuscripts. |
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European history. |
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History. |
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Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500. |
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HISTORY / Medieval. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hernández, René Franciscan Books and Their Readers Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,c2022 |
| ISBN |
9789048544981 (electronic book) |
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904854498X (electronic book) |
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