Orietta Da Rold

Paper in Medieval England

From Pulp to Fictions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explains the methods and knowledge to understand how and why paper was used in medieval writing and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840576
• ISBN-10: 1108840574
• Artikelnr.: 58852540

Autorenporträt

Dr Orietta Da Rold is Lecturer in Literature and Material Text, 1100 to 1500 at the University of Cambridge. She is the Co-Director (with Elaine Treharne) of the successful AHRC-funded project and e-book, English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 and is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to British Manuscripts with Elaine Treharne.

Inhaltsangabe

Paper and culture in medieval England: an introduction
1. Paper stories
2. The economics of paper
3. Writing on paper
4. The character of paper and its use in medieval books
5. Paper in the medieval literary imagination
6. Epilogue: the age of paper.