Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments
Title | Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments PDF eBook |
Author | Åslaug Ommundsen |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317086740 |
Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.
Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
Title | Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book PDF eBook |
Author | Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2024-02-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004538674 |
This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Title | Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Pelle |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Iceland |
ISBN | 184384611X |
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
Title | Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Stella |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 2024-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9027247293 |
The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.
Fragment of Latin manuscript
Title | Fragment of Latin manuscript PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 16?? |
Genre | Manuscripts, Latin |
ISBN |
Latin manuscript fragment
Title | Latin manuscript fragment PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | |
Genre | Paleography |
ISBN |
A 3-page manuscript in Latin, probably a fragment of a longer manuscript, circa 18th century.
The Meaning of Media
Title | The Meaning of Media PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Catharina Horn |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2021-05-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110695367 |
The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.