TY - BOOK ID - 645246 TI - Manuscript communication : visual and textual mechanics of communication in hagiographical texts from the Southern low countries, 900-1200 PY - 2015 VL - 32 SN - 9782503552941 2503552943 PB - Turnhout: Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Christian church history KW - Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography KW - History of the Low Countries KW - anno 1100-1199 KW - anno 900-999 KW - anno 1000-1099 KW - Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Transmission of texts KW - Christian hagiography KW - Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Written communication KW - Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes KW - Transmission de textes KW - Hagiographie chrétienne KW - Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne KW - Communication écrite KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Histoire KW - Histoire et critique KW - Aspect religieux KW - Christianisme KW - Belgium KW - Belgique KW - Church history KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Manuscrits médiévaux KW - Transmission des textes KW - 235.3 KW - 271.1 <493> KW - 271.1 <44> KW - 091:235.3 KW - 091 <493> KW - 091 "09/10" KW - 091 "11/12" KW - Hagiografie KW - Benedictijnen--België KW - Benedictijnen--Frankrijk KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi-:-Engelen. Demonen. Heiligen KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--België KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--10/11e eeuw. Periode 900-1099 KW - Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--12e/13e eeuw. Periode 1100-1299 KW - 091 "11/12" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--12e/13e eeuw. Periode 1100-1299 KW - 091 "09/10" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--10/11e eeuw. Periode 900-1099 KW - 091 <493> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--België KW - 271.1 <44> Benedictijnen--Frankrijk KW - 271.1 <493> Benedictijnen--België KW - 091.14:655.26 KW - Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes KW - Hagiographie chrétienne KW - Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne KW - Communication écrite KW - Manuscript design KW - Benelux countries KW - To 1500 KW - Manuscripts [Medieval ] KW - Littérature monastique KW - Hagiographie médiévale KW - Manuscrits hagiographiques UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:645246 AB - This book investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool. This study investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative tool. Four basic questions are addressed: How did layout influence a manuscript’s communicative potential? Was manuscript communication influenced by its composition? How did the flexibility of texts and manuscripts influence their communicative function? And how did the position of the monastery within the monastic landscape influence manuscript communication? Ranging from in-depth case studies to discussions of structure and agency in manuscript terminology and layout in the aftermath of New Philology, this book argues that the High Middle Ages witnessed a fundamental process of manuscript diversification and specialisation, which was at the basis of the thirteenth-century revolution in manuscript layout. This led twelfth-century monks to start conceptualising the manuscript as an object with fixed contents, which was to be used and copied as a whole. Consequently, the production and spread of saints’ lives became part of a process of ideological homogenisation among Benedictine monasteries and started a crucial development in medieval literacy. ER -