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The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy's research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.

Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Medieval

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The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations that determined what manuscripts should aim for. Space refers to the development and role of Franciscan libraries. The form is revealed by the assessment of the physical configuration of a set of representative manuscripts read, written, and manufactured by the friars. Finally, the study of the readership shows how Franciscans were skilled readers who employed certain forms of the manuscript as a portable, personal library, and as a tool for learning and pastoral care. By comparing the book collections of Padua’s reformed and unreformed medieval Franciscan libraries for the first time, this study reveals new features of the ground-breaking cultural agency of medieval friars.

Medieval manuscripts, Franciscan libraries, Medieval readers. --- HISTORY / Medieval.

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Old French literature --- French poetry --- -Manuscripts, Medieval --- -Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- French literature --- Lays --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- -French poetry --- Medieval manuscripts --- Folk songs --- Poetry --- Tales

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Theology --- -Manuscripts, Medieval --- -Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Early works to 1800 --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Early works to 1800. --- -Early works to 1800 --- Medieval manuscripts

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