Description |
1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 24, 2013). |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Introduction: Text and transmission in Medieval Europe / Chris Bishop [and others] -- The Irish birdman: kingship and liminality in Buile Suibhne / Bridgeette Slavin -- The eunuch Narses / John Martyn -- The politics of hagiography in ninth-century Rome / Bronwen Neil -- The 'lost" literature of England: text and transmission in tenth-century Wessex / Chris Bishop -- Close to the edge: The fortunes of men and the limits of wisdom literature / Robert DiNapoli -- Perpetual devotion: interpreting Medieval Mariology / Walter Kudrycz -- Illuminating ritual texts: text, image and the creation of sacred space in Jewish manuscripts of the Iberian peninsula / Vanessa Crosby -- A ballad of twelfth day: texts and contexts / Diane Speed -- Appendix I: an edition of Twelfth day. |
Summary |
Based on a conference: Text and Transmission in Early Medieval Europe, this book deals with range in geography from Ireland through to Byzantium, and covers almost a millennium of European history. It attempts to reveal some truths about texts, transmission and the literacies needed to interpret them. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
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Transmission of texts. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses.
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Manuscripts, Medieval. |
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature, Medieval. |
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Literature, Medieval -- Translations -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Literature, Medieval -- Translations. |
Chronological Term |
Geschichte 800-1500 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Bishop, Chris.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Text and transmission in medieval Europe. Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 9781847183149 (DLC) 2008378319 (OCoLC)165411411 |
ISBN |
9781443802772 (electronic book) |
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1443802778 (electronic book) |
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1282043102 |
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9781282043107 |
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