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Title Text and transmission in medieval Europe / editors, Chris Bishop.

Publication Info. Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Transmission of texts -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses.
Transmission of texts.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Manuscripts, Medieval -- Europe -- Congresses.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature, Medieval -- Translations -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Literature, Medieval -- Translations.
Chronological Term Geschichte 800-1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Bishop, Chris.
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)
1443802778 (electronic book)
1282043102
9781282043107