Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts, and Sciences.

Throughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigatin...

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Superior document:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series ; v.36
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2023.
©2024.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Manuscript Cultures Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (526 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Manuscripts for Performances
  • Making and Using Manuscripts in Theatre: The Material Dynamics of Two Nineteenth- Century Nathan der Weise Prompt Books
  • Performative Aspects of Assyrian Celestial Divination and Babylonian Astronomical Diaries
  • Pocket-Sized Liturgy: A Fifteenth-Century Breviary from the Abbey of San Zeno Maggiore
  • Performing Multiplications Beyond the Text of Some Sanskrit Mathematical Commentaries
  • A Bibliophile Performing Eclipse Computations: Lewis Caerleon and His Notebook
  • Manuscripts in Performances
  • Medieval Music Rolls, Scribes and Performance: The Extant Rolls of Thirteenth- Century English Polyphony
  • Astronomical Computation as a Performance: Determining Planetary Positions with the Manuscript Erfurt, Angermuseum, 3134
  • The 'Orchestration' of Manuscripts: Ottonian Gospel Books from Bamberg Cathedral and Their Liturgical Use
  • Reading the Psalms: The Relationship between Visual Organisation and Ritual in Medieval Latin Psalter Manuscripts
  • The Use of Anisong Manuscripts at Funerals in Northern Thailand and Laos
  • Manuscripts as Performers
  • The Palace as 'Theatre of Knowledge': Performing with Manuscripts in the Alfonsine Court
  • Performing (with) Multiple-Text Manuscripts in the Making of the Ethiopian Sainthood: Matter and Devotion in Ethiopia between the Fourteenth Century and the Present Time
  • Performing Renga with Manuscripts
  • Liturgical Practice in the Light of Medieval Liturgical Books
  • Objects or Actors? Medieval Latin Manuscripts in Ritual Performances
  • Contributors
  • Index of Written Artefacts