Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book: The Power of Paratexts: 66 (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) - Hardcover

Brown-Grant; Rosalind; Carmassi; Patrizia; Drossbach; Gisela; Hedeman; Anne D.; Turner; Victoria; Ventura; Iolanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501517880 ISBN 13: 9781501517884

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020

Synopsis

This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

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About the Authors

Rosalind Brown-Grant is Professor of Late Medieval French Literature at the University of Leeds, publishing on Christine de Pizan, prose romances, and text-image relations in manuscripts.

Patrizia Carmassi's research interests include the history of the medieval Church and liturgy, Latin philology, text-image relationships, paleography, codicology, and the history of libraries.

Gisela Drossbach is Professor of European Regional History at the University of Augsburg, working on medieval law, history of religious institutions, and text-image relations.

Anne D. Hedeman, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas, works on text-image relationships in vernacular late medieval French secular manuscripts.

Victoria Turner is a Lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews working on medieval representations of gender, race, and otherness and narratives of travel and exploration.

From the Back Cover

This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features--annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles--are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy, and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501517880
• ISBN 13: 9781501517884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 395