Medieval manuscript studies : a European perspective / Orietta Da Rold and Marilena Maniaci -- The DigiPal Project for European scripts and decorations / Stewart Brookes, Peter A. Stokes, Matilda Watson and DeĢbora Marques de Matos -- Italian Giant Bibles : the circulation and use of the book at the time of the ecclesiastical reform in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Nadia Togni -- Isolation or network : Arengas and colophon verse in Frisian manuscripts around 1300 / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- Writing the Germanic languages : the early history of the digraphs <th>, <ch> and <uu> / Annina Seiler -- The new heathens : anti-Jewish hostility in early English literature / George Younge -- Latin composition in Medieval Norway / Aidan Conti -- Translating Europe in Medieval Wales / Helen Fulton -- Charms among the chants : verbal magic in Medieval Bulgarian manuscripts / Svetlana Tsonkova.
Summary:
Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged and varied processes through which Europe's different parts entered into modern reading, writing and communicative practices, drawing on a range of approaches and perspectives; they consider material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the Middle Ages. Dr Aidan Conti teaches in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen; Dr Orietta Da Rold teaches in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Dr Philip Shaw teaches at the School of English, University of Leicester. Contributors: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stewart Brookes, Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Helen Fulton, Marilena Maniaci, Debora Matos, Annina Seiler, Peter A. Stokes, Nadia Togni, Svetlana Tsonkova, Matilda Watson, George Younge.
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