Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-8728-302-5
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 190 mm

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture

This volume presents six essays devoted to the practices, habits, and preferences of scribes making manuscripts in their native tongue. Despite the dominance of Latin in medieval written culture, vernacular traditions started to develop in Europe in the eleventh century. Focusing on French, Frisian, Icelandic, Italian, Middle High German, and Old English examples, these essays discuss the connectivity of books originating in the same linguistic space. Given that authors, translators, and readers advanced vernacular written culture through the production and consumption of texts, how did the scribes who copied them fit into this development? Did they have a specific approach to copying texts in their native language? Can we observe patterns in how manuscripts in the same vernacular presented their contents? To address such questions the essays taken material features of manuscripts, both palaeographical and codicological, as a point of departure. Contributions by Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Godfried Croenen, J.P. Gumbert (†), Kathryn A. Lowe, Sheryl McDonald Werronen and Nigel F. Palmer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kwakkel, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures and Plates

Preface

Abbreviations

Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500: An Introduction / Erik Kwakkel

Worcester and Wales: Copies of the Regula pastoralis in the Early Middle Ages / Kathryn A. Lowe

Manuscripts of the Earliest Middle High German Prayers, c. 1150-1250 / Nigel F. Palmer

Rubricating History in Late Medieval France / Godfried Croenen

Codifying the Law: Frisian Legal Manuscripts around 1300 / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr

Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Saga Manuscripts / Sheryl McDonald Werronen

Thick Quires in Italy / J.P. Gumbert (†)

Notes on Contributors

Colour Plates

Index of Manuscripts

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kwakkel, Erik
Erik Kwakkel teaches at Leiden University, where he directs the research project ‘Turning over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance’.