Seller
Your price
£28.83
RRP: £34.99
Save £6.16 (18%)
Dispatched within 2-3 working days.
Introducing English Medieval Book History
Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
By (author)
III Ralph Hanna
Genres:
Palaeography (history of writing), Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Medieval history, Social & cultural history, Material culture, British & Irish history
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
This book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems. Rather than focus on bibliographical particulars, the volume considers a variety of ways in which scholars use manuscripts to discuss book culture, and it provides a wide-ranging introductory bibliography to aid in the study. All the essays try to suggest how the study of surviving medieval books might be useful in considering medieval literary culture more generally. Subjects covered include authorship, genre, discontinuous production, scribal individuality and community, the history of libraries and the history of book provenance. New & Used
| Seller | Information | Condition | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - | New | £28.83 + FREE UK P & P |
What Reviewers Are Saying
Reviews'Scholarship in this work is superb. Quotations, translations, bibliography are spot on. Professor Hanna's lifetime of intelligent work in the field glows at all points of discussion.'
MS referee 'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographical and bibliographical study; it will have a wide readership. It will be an excellent partner for the recent Owen-Crocker volume 'Working with Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.'
Series Editors 'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively qualified.'
Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen
MS referee 'This is a first-rate book from a scholar at the forefront of palaeographi
Series Editors 'This handsome volume teaches far more than the facts of book history, manuscript culture, and Middle English Literature. It is a model of how to sleuth, how to think critically, how to enter into a detective mindset 'in which every implicit assumption of knowledge [is] teased out, queried and productively
Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen