Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book

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. Iolanda Ventura, Associate Professor of Classical Philology and Italian Studies at the University of Bologna, works on the history of medicine and pharmacology, medical texts, and manuscripts.

• List of FiguresEditorial PrinciplesPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction by the EditorsPart 1: Constructing Bodies of KnowledgeJuridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence by Mario Ascheri and Paola MaffeiPrefaces in Canon Law Books by Gisela Drossbach"Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio": Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia by Isabelle DraelantsPart 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating PracticeFrom Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine by Concetta PennutoImmortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks by Hanna WimmerWriting in the Margin—Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists by Joanna FrońskaStructuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l’âme by Guillaume de Deguileville by Géraldine VeysseyrePart 3: Adopting Tradition, Empowering ReadersFrom Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil by Sinéad O’SullivanTranslating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts by Anne D. HedemanParatext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien by Victoria TurnerPrefaces and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts by Rosalind Brown-GrantPart 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the BookVisualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries by Alison StonesParatext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel by Outi MerisaloBook Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext by Patrizia CarmassiList of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions CitedBibliographyNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex