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Piety in pieces : how medieval readers customized their manuscripts
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ISBN: 1783742348 178374233X 1783742356 2821883978 9781783742356 9781783742363 1783742364 9781783742370 1783742372 9781783742332 9781783742349 9782821883970 Year: 2016 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts. These activities accelerated in the fifteenth century. Most manuscripts made before 1390 were bespoke and made for a particular client, but those made after 1390 (especially books of hours) were increasingly made for an open market, in which the producer was not in direct contact with the buyer. Increased efficiency led to more generic products, which owners were motivated to personalise. It also led to more blank parchment in the book, for example, the backs of inserted miniatures and the blanks ends of textual components. Book buyers of the late fourteenth and throughout the fifteenth century still held onto the old connotations of manuscripts-that they were custom-made luxury items-even when the production had become impersonal. Owners consequently purchased books made for an open market and then personalised them, filling in the blank spaces, and even adding more components later. This would give them an affordable product, but one that still smacked of luxury and met their individual needs. They kept older books in circulation by amending them, attached items to generic books to make them more relevant and valuable, and added new prayers with escalating indulgences as the culture of salvation shifted. Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of…

The intellectual foundations of the English Benedictine reform
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ISBN: 0521581559 0521030528 1107113865 0511006705 0511116632 0511149468 0511309678 0511483295 1280161728 0511053924 9780521581554 9780521030526 0511038682 9780511038686 9780511116636 9780511006708 9780511483295 9780511309670 9781107113862 9781280161728 9780511149467 9780511053924 Year: 1999 Volume: 25 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963-84), of the most influential school in late Anglo-Saxon England. The vital early stages of Æthelwold's scholarly career are explored for the first time, particularly his formative years in King Æthelstan's entourage and his period of study at Glastonbury. Light is shed on the contribution which Æthelstan's cosmopolitan court made to intellectual and spiritual life. Based on a wide range of evidence Dr Gretsch assigns to Æthelwold two influential texts: an interlinear translation of the psalter and a vast corpus of Old English glosses to Aldhelm's prose De virginitate. These glosses are shown to have played a pivotal role in the development of the vernacular as a medium for scholarly discourse.

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English language --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxons --- Lexicography --- Aethelwold, --- Aldhelm, --- Athelstan, --- Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier. --- Benedictines --- History --- Bible. --- Royal Psalter --- Interlinear translations, English --- England --- Intellectual life --- 271.1 <420> --- -Manuscripts, English (Old) --- -Anglo-Saxons --- -Saxons --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Germanic languages --- 271.1 <420> Benedictijnen--Engeland --- Benedictijnen--Engeland --- Aethelwold Saint, Bishop of Winchester --- Aldhelm Saint --- Athelstan King of England --- Bibliotheque royale Albert Ier --- -Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I --- Belgium. --- Royal Library Albert I --- BR --- KB --- Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Belgium) --- Bibliothèque royale de Belgique --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- -England --- -Intellectual life --- -271.1 <420> --- -Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- -English language --- Anglais (Langue) --- Manuscrits anglais (vieil anglais) --- Lexicography. --- Lexicographie --- Histoire --- Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier --- Interlinear translations, English. --- Angleterre --- Vie intellectuelle --- Saxons --- Aethelstan, --- Ethelstan, --- Adelwold, --- Ethelwold, --- Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier. --- Royal Psalter. --- Regius-Psalter --- Biblos Psalmon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Buch der Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Liber Psalmorum (Book of the Old Testament) --- Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmoi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms of David (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psaumes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pseaumes de Dauid (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmenes bok (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmos (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shihen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Soltar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tehilim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tehillim (Book of the Old Testament) --- תהלים (Book of the Old Testament) --- Zsoltárkönyv (Book of the Old Testament) --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Lexicography --- Manuscripts, English (Old) - England - Winchester --- Anglo-Saxons - England - Winchester --- Aethelwold, - Saint, Bishop of Winchester, - approximately 908-984 --- Aldhelm, - Saint, - 640?-709. - De laudibus virginitatis --- Athelstan, - King of England, - 895-939 --- England - Intellectual life - to 1066 --- Christian literature, English (Old). --- Intellectual life. --- Benedictines. --- Bibliotheque royale Albert Ier.

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