Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments write by Åslaug Ommundsen. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.
Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments
Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments write by Åslaug Ommundsen. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.
Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book
Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book write by Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba. This book was released on 2024-02-12. Early Modern Catholicism and the Printed Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The contributions reflect on the engagement of institutions and authorities in the process of book production, bringing to the fore the role of networks in this process; show the book as a tool of resistance to the Protestant Reformation; give insight into the content and design of book collections; showcase textual production in the context of cultural appropriation and shed light on the role of the image in the propagation of Catholicism. Together the sixteen contributions demonstrate the diversity of the Catholic book in its forms and functions, in various social and national contexts.
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland write by Stephen Pelle. This book was released on 2021. Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond write by Francesco Stella. This book was released on 2024-07-15. Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet.
