This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by top medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering interdisciplinary approaches to a variety of subjects. -- .
This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by top medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering interdisciplinary approaches to a variety of subjects. -- .Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen's University, Belfast Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen's University, Belfast
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis Part I: Anthologies of knowledge 1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission - László Sándor Chardonnens 2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future - Marilina Cesario 3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge - Ann Buckley Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions 4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature - Hugh Magennis 5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 - Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West - Denis Renevey 7 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman - Kath Stevenson Part III: Past and present 8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas - Richard North 9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook - Emily Wingfield Part IV: Knowledge and materiality 10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' - Michelle P. Brown 11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English - Donald G. Scragg Index
Introduction - Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis Part I: Anthologies of knowledge 1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission - László Sándor Chardonnens 2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future - Marilina Cesario 3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge - Ann Buckley Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions 4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature - Hugh Magennis 5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 - Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West - Denis Renevey 7 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman - Kath Stevenson Part III: Past and present 8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas - Richard North 9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook - Emily Wingfield Part IV: Knowledge and materiality 10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' - Michelle P. Brown 11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English - Donald G. Scragg Index
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