Cesario / Unknown / Magennis Aspects of knowledge

Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0701-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This book investigates the role of ‘texts’ – including books, maps, stones and caskets – in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by top medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementary angles, offering interdisciplinary approaches to a variety of subjects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Cesario, Marilina

Magennis, Hugh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis
Part I: Anthologies of knowledge
1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission – László Sándor Chardonnens
2 Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni future – Marilina Cesario
3 The Cambridge Songs as anthology of musical knowledge – Ann Buckley
Part II: Transmission of Christian traditions
4 Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature – Hugh Magennis
5 Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100–1300 – Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman
6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West – Denis Renevey
7 ‘Ther are bokes ynowe’: texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman – Kath Stevenson
Part III: Past and present
8 Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas – Richard North
9 Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot’s Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook – Emily Wingfield
Part IV: Knowledge and materiality
10 The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified ‘book’ – Michelle P. Brown
11 Mis en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English – Donald G. Scragg
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marilina Cesario is Senior Lecturer in the Earliest English Writings and Historical Linguistics at Queen’s University, Belfast

Hugh Magennis is Professor Emeritus in Old English at Queen’s University, Belfast