The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript : : Text Collections from a European Perspective / / Karen Pratt [and three others].

• VerfasserIn: Pratt, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R unipress,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 pages) :; illustrations

This collection of essays examines the various dynamic processes by which texts are preserved, transmitted, and modified in medieval multi-text codices, focusing on the meanings generated by new contexts and the possible reader experiences provoked by novel configurations and material presentation. Containing essays on text collections from many different European countries and in a wide range of medieval languages, this volume sheds new light on common trends and regional differences in the history of book production and reading practices.

Table of Contents

The patron and the implied readership of The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 76 E 5 / Bart Besamusca -- Size does not matter: on characterising medieval multi-text codices / Gerard Bouwmeester -- What John Shirley said about Adam: authorship and attribution in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 / Margaret Connolly -- Texts and transmission in late medieval and early Renaissance Italian multi-text codices / Paolo Divizia -- Views on the Oudenaarde Verse Book / Daniel Ermens -- The Hauksbók: an example of medieval modes of collecting and compilation / Karl G. Johansson -- The Findern Codex and the blog In the middle: understanding Middle English vernacular manuscripts through the lens of social media in the twenty-first century / Kate Koppy -- Codifying genre: the Dresdener Heldenbuch / Florian Kragl -- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français 378 and the gendered visages of allegorical narrative / Kathy M. Krause -- How to name a story?: rubrics, headings, titles / Matthias Meyer, Nicola Zotz -- Sens in dialogue: the manuscript contexts of the Fables Pierre Aufons / Hannah Morcos -- Shared exemplars and the creation of miscellanies in the manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde / Tamara Pérez-Fernández -- The dynamics of the European short narrative in its manuscript context / Karen Pratt -- 'Looke this calender and then proced': tables of contents in Medieval English manuscripts / Wendy Scase -- London, British Library, MS Harley 913 and colonial Ireland in the early fourteenth century / John Scattergood -- 'Aprendre e enseigner': the contents of Cambridge University Library, MS Gg. 1.1 / Thea Summerfield -- No text is an island: the Chastelaine de Vergi's exemplarity in context / Rachel Sweet -- Authorial and editorial roles in song manuscripts of the Devotio Moderna / Dieuwke van der Poel, Cécile de Morrée.