Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
Author: Susan Baddeley
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2012-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110288176
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This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period.

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
Author: Mark Bland
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118653998
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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010 Based almost exclusively on new primary research Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh

Books Before Print

Books Before Print
Author: Erik Kwakkel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Books
ISBN: 9781942401612
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This beautifully illustrated book provides an accessible introduction to the medieval manuscript and explores how its materiality can act as a vibrant and versatile tool to understand the deep historical roots of human interaction with written information.

Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" Manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS G24)

Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a
Author: Domenic Leo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2013-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004250832
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The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.

Lost Books

Lost Books
Author: Flavia Bruni
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004311823
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Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.