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The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and material approaches to medieval, early modern, and digital books and texts. They scrutinize individual medieval manuscripts to illustrate how careful re-reading of evidence permits a more nuanced apprehension of production, and reception across time; analyse metaphor for our understanding of the Byzantine book; examine the materiality of textuality from Beowulf to Pepys and the digital work in the twenty-first century; place manuscripts back into specific historical context; and re-appraise scholarly interpretation of significant periods of manuscript and print production in the later medieval and early modern periods. All of these essays call for a new assessment of the ways in which we read books and texts, making a major contribution to book history, and illustrating how detailed focus on individual cases can yield important new findings. Contributors: Elaine Treharne, Erika Corradini, Julia Crick, Orietta Da Rold, A.S.G. Edwards, Martin K. Foys, Whitney Anne Trettien, David L. Gants, Ralph Hanna, Robert Romanchuk, Margaret M. Smith, Liberty Stanavage.

Book history --- English literature --- Books --- Printing --- Literature --- Livres --- Imprimerie --- Littérature --- History. --- Sociological aspects. --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- 091 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Littérature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- History --- Sociological aspects --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Beowulf. --- Byzantine book. --- Cultural Texts. --- Pepys. --- Textual Cultures. --- book history. --- digital books. --- digital work. --- early modern. --- historical context. --- history of the book. --- manuscript production. --- manuscripts. --- materiality of textuality. --- medieval. --- metaphor. --- print production. --- production. --- reception. --- scholarly interpretation. --- texts. --- twenty-first century.

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The 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.

091 "10/12" --- 091.14 --- 091:028 --- 091:028 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Lezen. Lectuur --- 091.14 Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Codicologie. Codices. Scriptoria --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--11e/13e eeuw. Periode 1000-1299. --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--11e/13e eeuw. Periode 1000-1299 --- Book history --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- anno 1000-1099 --- Europe --- Boekgeschiedenis --- boekgeschiedenis --- Europa --- book history --- Manuscripts, European --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Books --- Books and reading --- Civilization, Medieval --- History --- History. --- Twelfth century --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- European manuscripts

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The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's 'The Seasons'; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, 'The Athenaeum'. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Book history --- English literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 820 --- 76 <41> --- Engelse literatuur --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Books --- Books and reading --- Printing --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- History --- 76 <41> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 820 Engelse literatuur --- 820 English literature. Literature in English --- English literature. Literature in English --- Literature publishing --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Bibliographical matters. --- Critical and editorial fortunes. --- Cultural literacy. --- Engraved media. --- Literary texts. --- Print culture genres. --- Print culture. --- Publishing practices. --- Sandro Jung. --- Seventeenth to nineteenth century.

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Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged and varied processes through which Europe's different parts entered into modern reading, writing and communicative practices, drawing on a range of approaches and perspectives; they consider material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the Middle Ages. Dr Aidan Conti teaches in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen; Dr Orietta Da Rold teaches in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Dr Philip Shaw teaches at the School of English, University of Leicester. Contributors: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stewart Brookes, Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Helen Fulton, Marilena Maniaci, Debora Matos, Annina Seiler, Peter A. Stokes, Nadia Togni, Svetlana Tsonkova, Matilda Watson, George Younge.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Books --- Printing --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Book industries and trade --- Book industries and trade. --- Books. --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- History --- Origin and antecedents. --- To 1500 --- Europe. --- To 1500. --- Origin and antecedents --- Manuscripts --- Codices --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- 091:003 --- 091:003 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Semiotiek. Schriften. Tekens en symbolen. Codes. Grafische voorstellingen --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Medieval manuscripts --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- European history. --- Middle Ages. --- communication practices. --- historical documents. --- literary culture. --- manuscript analysis. --- manuscript studies. --- medieval Europe. --- medieval texts. --- pan-European perspective. --- textual criticism. --- textual culture. --- writing.

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Essays on book history, manuscripts and reading during a period of considerable change.

09 <082> --- 091 <41> --- 091 "14/15" --- 091 "16" --- 091 "16" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 091 "14/15" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Renaissance --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Renaissance --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 09 <082> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Manuscripts, English --- History --- Early printed books --- Books --- Graphics industry --- manuscripts [documents] --- letterpress printing --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Book history --- United Kingdom --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- English manuscripts --- Manuscripts, English - History - 15th century --- Manuscripts, English - History - 16th century --- Early printed books - Great Britain --- Books - Great Britain - History - 1450-1600 --- Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest