Author : Andrew G. Watson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
The essays that make up this collection examine 4 main themes in the history of the book over 5 centuries: monastic books and mediaeval learning, humanism and incunabula, the dispersal of monastic libraries and post-monastic collections.
Author : Annika Bautz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0429952392
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.
Author : Dept. of Special Collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2002-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402002373
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries records articles of scholarly value that relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic, social and cultural environment involved in their production, distribution, conservation and description.
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107066190
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2004-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0230524257
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
Author : Erik Kwakkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107136989
The first comprehensive study of the European book in the historical period known as the 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225).
Author : Michael Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192871773
The Middle English Book analyzes 202 literary manuscripts from late medieval England (1350-1500) and argues that most readers looked to scribes in their immediate vicinity to acquire copies of literature. It examines various forms of writing practiced by scribes throughout the late medieval English countryside and shows that the production of documents underscored the wide availability of literary copying. As a result, when a reader acquired a manuscript,they were most often tapping into local networks of document production.
Author : David Rundle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107193435
Reform of the script was central to the humanist agenda - this book suggests a new explanation of its international success.
Author : Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521889790
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Author : Valerie Edden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780859915878
`The Index of Middle English Prose when completed will be a monumental achievement.' REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES
