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Imagining the Book
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2005 | | Collana: | Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe |
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Collectively, the contributors to
Imagining the Book offer a snapshot of current research in
English manuscript study in the pre-modern period on the inter-related
topics of patrons and collectors, compilers, editors and readers, and
identities beyond the book. This volume responds to the recent
development and institutionalization of 'History of the Book'
within the wider English Studies discipline. Scholars working in the
pre-printing era with the material vestiges of a predominantly
manuscript culture are currently establishing their own models of
production and reception. Research in this area is now an accepted part
of twenty-first century Medieval Studies. Within such a context, it is
frequently observed that scribal culture found imaginative ways to deal
with the technological watersheds represented by the transition from
memory to written record, roll to codex, or script to print. In such an
'eventful' environment, texts and books not infrequently slip
through the semi-permeable boundaries laboured over by previous
generations of medievalists, boundaries that demarcate orality and
literacy; 'literary' and 'historical';
'religious' and 'secular'; pre- and post-Conquest
compositions, or 'Medieval' and 'Renaissance' attitudes
and writings. Once texts are regarded as offering indices of community-
or self-definition, or models of piety and good behaviour (and the
codices holding them statements of prestige and influence), the book
historian is left to contemplate the real or imagined importance and
status of books and writting within the larger socio-political, often
local, milieux in which they were once produced and read.
All fourteen essays in this volume
question the status of the book in a predominantly manuscript culture.
Some focus on the practical politics of book production and local
circumstances; others focus on the visual experience of early readers.
In this volume, the idea of the pre-modern vernacular book is pursued
in terms of its miscellaneity and its association with localised
writing projects undertaken by (and occasionally also for) a polyglot
and sometimes also socially-aware English readership. Such
investigation is valuable since it enables us to recognise the textual
networks, the sources and the readership that mark the pre-modern codex
as an important medium of social and literary exchange quite distinct
from printed books.
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