Scribes, Script, and Books - 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 Scribes, Script, and Books write by Leila Avrin. This book was released on 2010. Scribes, Script, and Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved in paper-making and book-binding. Readers will have a greater understanding of ancient books and texts with More than 300 plates and illustrations Examples of the different forms of writing from ancient times to the printing press Coverage of cultural and religious books Full bibliography Reference librarians and educators will find this resource indispensable.
Scribes, Scripts, and Readers
Scribes, Scripts, and Readers - 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 Scribes, Scripts, and Readers write by Malcolm Beckwith Parkes. This book was released on 1991. Scribes, Scripts, and Readers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of writing and reading in the middle ages is not only of direct importance to the understanding of its culture but also fascinating in its own right. Scribes, Scripts and Readers brings together fifteen essays by M.B. Parkes, the author of English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500. Centred on England and her direct neighbours, they deal with scribes and schools of writing, scribal techniques, and wider questions of communication in written language, literacy and the availability of books. This is a book of interest not only to palaeographers but also to historians, linguists, literary scholars and librarians.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain - 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 The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain write by Lotte Hellinga. This book was released on 1999-12-09. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. The profound changes during that time in social, political and religious conditions are reflected in the dissemination and reception of the written word. The manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. The emphasis in this collection of essays is on the demand and use of books. Patterns of ownership are identified as well as patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand. The book trade receives special attention, with emphasis on the large part played by imports and on links with printers in other countries, which were decisive for the development of printing and publishing in Britain.
Writing the Bible
Writing the Bible - 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 Writing the Bible write by Thomas Römer. This book was released on 2016-06-16. Writing the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. "Writing the Bible" brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The European Book in the Twelfth Century - 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 The European Book in the Twelfth Century write by Erik Kwakkel. This book was released on 2018-07-26. The European Book in the Twelfth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.
