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

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....

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