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English poetry --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Transmission of texts --- Criticism, Textual --- History --- Thornton, Robert, --- Thornton, Robert --- London Thornton manuscript.

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Imagining the Book offers a snapshot of current research in English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and identities beyond the book. This volume responds to the recent development and institutionalization of ‘History of the Book’ within the wider discipline. Scholars working in the pre-printing era with the material vestiges of a predominantly manuscript culture are currently establishing their own models of production and reception. Research in this area is now an accepted part of twenty-first century medieval studies. Within such a context, it is frequently observed that scribal culture found imaginative ways to deal with the technological watersheds represented by the transition from memory to written record, roll to codex, or script to print. In such an ‘eventful’ environment, texts and books not infrequently slip through the semi-permeable boundaries laboured over by previous generations of medievalists, boundaries that demarcate orality and literacy; ‘literary’ and ‘historical’; ‘religious’ and ‘secular’; pre- and post-Conquest compositions, or ‘medieval’ and ‘Renaissance’ attitudes and writings. Once texts are regarded as offering indices of community- or self-definition, or models of piety and good behaviour (and the codices holding them statements of prestige and influence), the book historian is left to contemplate the real or imagined importance and status of books and writing within the larger socio-political, often local, milieux in which they were once produced and read.

091 <41> --- 09 <063> --- 091 =20 --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 09 <063> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Congressen --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1000-1099 --- England --- Books and reading --- Books --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English --- History --- Intellectual life --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Transmission of texts --- Geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen --- Geschiedenis van het boek --- Handschriften --- Histoire du Moyen Age --- Histoire du livre --- Manuscrits --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- English manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Books and reading - Congresses - History - To 1500 - England --- Books - England - History - 1400-1600 - Congresses --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England - Congresses --- Manuscripts, English - History - 16th century - Congresses --- England - Congresses - Intellectual life - 1066-1485

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091 <41> --- 09 <082 PEARSALL, DEREK> --- 091 <063> --- 091 <063> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Congressen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Congressen --- 09 <082 PEARSALL, DEREK> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--PEARSALL, DEREK --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Feestbundels. Festschriften--PEARSALL, DEREK --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Book history --- Old English literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography

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"This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholars-all indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsall-to showcase new research prompted by his rich and ongoing legacy as a literary critic, editor, and seminal founder of Middle English manuscript studies. The contributors aim both to honor Pearsall's work in the field he established and to introduce the complexities of interdisciplinary manuscript studies to students already familiar with medieval literature. The contributors explore a range of issues, from the study of medieval literary manuscripts to the history of medieval books, libraries, literacy, censorship, and the social classes who used the books and manuscripts-nobles, children, schoolmasters, priests, merchants, and more. In addressing reading practices, essays provide a wealth of information on marginal commentaries, images and interpretive methods, international transmission, and early print and editorial methods. "New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices marks the heritage of the distinguished scholar Derek Pearsall while highlighting his continuing influence on medieval manuscript studies. Buoyed by fine work of senior scholars, the collection also introduces readers to stimulating work by an upcoming generation of more recent practitioners, all of whom address crucial issues in the field: the particulars of individual manuscripts, including scribal practice, marginal commentary, and audience reception. The result is a fine collection at once canonical in some respects and innovative in others." -Paul H. Strohm, Anna S. Garbedian Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Columbia University"--

Books and reading --- English literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- History --- Manuscripts. --- Pearsall, Derek.