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 study investigates how medieval abbeys in the Southern Low Countries used hagiographical manuscripts as a communicative too. 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 Philosophy, 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 -