Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology – serie
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Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne
Av Bernhard Bischoff, Michael Gorman
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991) was one of the most renowned scholars of medieval palaeography of the twentieth century. His most outstanding contribution to learning was in the field of Carolingian studies, where his work is based on the catalogue of all extant ninth-century manuscripts and …
Cultural Interplay in the Eighth Century
The Trier Gospels and the Makings of a Scriptorium at Echternach
Av Nancy Netzer
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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A detailed study of the Trier Gospels, an important early medieval manuscript. Through an investigation of its production, Professor Netzer reveals the cross-cultural influences among the Insular, Continental and Mediterranean worlds in the eighth century, demonstrating in particular the …
The Harley Psalter
Av William Noel
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This is a fascinating study of the making of the Harley Psalter, an illustrated manuscript which was produced at Christ Church, Canterbury, over a period of about 100 years, from c. 1020 to c. 1130. The Harley Psalter was closely based on the Utrecht Psalter, the most celebrated of all Carolingian …
The Early Medieval Bible
Its Production, Decoration and Use
Häftad, 2009
618 kr
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The significance of the Bible in the life, thought and culture of the early Middle Ages can hardly be overstated. Here eleven linked studies, embracing palaeography, history, art history, theology and textual scholarship, examine and interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts (including gospel …
Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus
Häftad, 2008
973 kr
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The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and …
Giles of Rome's De regimine principum
Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275-c.1525
Häftad, 2008
557 kr
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From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or …
The Bobbio Missal
Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul
Av Yitzhak Hen, Rob Meens
Häftad, 2009
609 kr
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The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded …
Women as Scribes
Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. …
Giles of Rome's De regimine principum
Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c.1275-c.1525
Inbunden, 1999
1777 kr
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From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or …
The Gottschalk Antiphonary
Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach
Av Lisa Fagin Davis, David Ganz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
1744 kr
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Lisa Fagin Davis offers the first photographic reconstruction of the extant leaves of the Gottschalk Antiphonary, an important twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The Gottschalk Antiphonary, which was dismantled for binding scrap in the fifteenth century, is examined …
Vision and Meaning in Ninth-Century Byzantium
Image as Exegesis in the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus
Inbunden, 1999
2659 kr
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The Byzantines used imagery to communicate a wide range of issues. In the context of Iconoclasm - the debate about the legitimacy of religious art conducted between c. AD 730 and 843 - Byzantine authors themselves claimed that visual images could express certain ideas better than words. Vision and …
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books
From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Häftad, 2006
639 kr
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This book, first published in 2003, presents a detailed survey of all book scripts in use in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530 (with the exception of Humanistic script). This period has been poorly served in almost all other palaeographical handbooks. By adopting a largely new …
Women as Scribes
Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria
Inbunden, 2004
1777 kr
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Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. …
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books
From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century
Av Albert Derolez, David Ganz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
2697 kr
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This book, first published in 2003, presents a detailed survey of all book scripts in use in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530 (with the exception of Humanistic script). This period has been poorly served in almost all other palaeographical handbooks. By adopting a largely new …
Reading in Medieval St. Gall
Inbunden, 2006
2331 kr
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Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as the pupils' own language. The teaching methods used in the medieval Abbey of St Gall survive in the translations and commentaries of the monk, scholar and teacher Notker Labeo (c.950-1022). Notker's …
Cathedral and Civic Ritual in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence
The Service Books of Santa Maria del Fiore
Inbunden, 2005
2646 kr
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The service books of the Florentine Duomo of Santa Maria del Fiore were, like the church itself, a cultural reflection of the city's position of power and prestige. Largely unexplored by modern scholars, these manuscripts provided the texts and, sometimes, the music necessary for the celebration of …
The Bobbio Missal
Liturgy and Religious Culture in Merovingian Gaul
Av Yitzhak Hen, Rob Meens
Inbunden, 2004
2022 kr
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The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The Missal is therefore highly regarded …
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
Av Alexandra Gillespie, Daniel Wakelin
Inbunden, 2011
2191 kr
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Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's and eventually Caxton's printed books …
Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2023
2046 kr
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This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text. Tracing their surprising origins within late …
Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity
The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines Romani
Inbunden, 2024
1685 kr
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This incisive, in-depth study unearths the significance of a neglected group of early medieval manuscripts, those which transmit the Ordines Romani. These texts present detailed scripts for Christian ceremonies that narrate the gestures, motions, actions and settings of ritual performance, with …
Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2026
758 kr
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Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138) became one of medieval Europe's most popular and successful creations. Here, Jaakko Tahkokallio explores its high-medieval reception through a detailed examination of its extensive manuscript corpus. Geoffrey's …
Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Inbunden, 2026
2069 kr
Kommande
Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138) became one of medieval Europe's most popular and successful creations. Here, Jaakko Tahkokallio explores its high-medieval reception through a detailed examination of its extensive manuscript corpus. Geoffrey's …
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
The English Quattrocento
Av David Rundle
Inbunden, 2019
1832 kr
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What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of …
Reading in Medieval St. Gall
Häftad, 2012
687 kr
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Learning to read in medieval Germany meant learning to read and understand Latin as well as the pupils' own language. The teaching methods used in the medieval Abbey of St Gall survive in the translations and commentaries of the monk, scholar and teacher Notker Labeo (c.950-1022). Notker's …
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
Av Alexandra Gillespie, Daniel Wakelin
Häftad, 2014
750 kr
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Between roughly 1350 and 1500, the English vernacular became established as a language of literary, bureaucratic, devotional and controversial writing; metropolitan artisans formed guilds for the production and sale of books for the first time; and Gutenberg's and eventually Caxton's printed books …
Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe
The Invention of Musical Notation
Av Susan Rankin
Inbunden, 2018
1962 kr
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Musical notation has not always existed: in the West, musical traditions have often depended on transmission from mouth to ear, and ear to mouth. Although the Ancient Greeks had a form of musical notation, it was not passed on to the medieval Latin West. This comprehensive study investigates the …
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation
Inbunden, 2019
1389 kr
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This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men …
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
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This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470-1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men …
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
The English Quattrocento
Av David Rundle
Häftad, 2021
667 kr
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What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of …
