Early Printed Narrative Literature In Western Europe
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| Author | : Bart Besamusca |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 3110563010 |
The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that already existed in manuscript form undergo significant modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which strategies did early printers develop to make their texts commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on developments in the history of early printed narrative texts, others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from various disciplines to get involved in an international conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative literature.
| Author | : Bart Besamusca |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 355 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 311056310X |
The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that already existed in manuscript form undergo significant modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which strategies did early printers develop to make their texts commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on developments in the history of early printed narrative texts, others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from various disciplines to get involved in an international conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative literature.
| Author | : Rita Schlusemann, Helwi Blom, Anna Katharina Richter, Krystyna Wierzbicka-Trwoga |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2023-06-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3110764512 |
| Author | : Anna Dlabačová |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2023-09-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004520155 |
'The Open Access publishing costs of this volume were covered by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Veni-project “Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries” (grant number 275-30-036).' This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the contributors investigate how book producers conceived of their target audiences and how these vernacular books were designed and used. Three sections highlight connections between vernacularity and materiality from distinct perspectives: real and imagined readers, mobility of texts and images, and intermediality. The volume brings contributions on different regions, languages, and book types into dialogue. Contributors include Heather Bamford, Tillmann Taape, Stefan Matter, Suzan Folkerts, Karolina Mroziewicz, Martha W. Driver, Alexa Sand, Elisabeth de Bruijn, Katell Lavéant, Margriet Hoogvliet, and Walter S. Melion.
| Author | : Massimiliano Bampi |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2021-08-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3772001459 |
Das Buch präsentiert Texte, die ein einzigartiges Zeugnis kontinentaler höfischer Erzählkunst in der dänischen Literatur zwischen Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit darstellen: die Eufemiaviser (Eufemia-Gedichte), die in der Zeit um 1470–1480 über französische und altschwedische Vorlagen ins Dänische übersetzt wurden. In der skandinavistischen Forschung wurden sie bisher kaum untersucht. This book presents texts which are a unique testimony in Danish literature between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period: the so-called Eufemiaviser (Eufemia poems), courtly verse romances, translated into Danish via Old French and Old Swedish sources in the later part of the 15th century. These texts have hardly been studied in Scandinavian research so far.
| Author | : Vincent Gillespie |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1843843633 |
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.
| Author | : Bart Besamusca |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2021-01-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1786836831 |
In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..
| Author | : Cornelis van der Haven |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2023-07-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004544879 |
This volume explores the indispensability of a transnational perspective for the construction and writing of literary histories of the Low Countries from 1200- 1800. It looks at the role of mediators such as translators, printers, and editors, at characteristics of literary genres and the possibilities they offered for literary boundary crossing and adaptation, and at the role of regions and urban centers as multilingual hubs. This collection demonstrates the centrality of transnational perspectives for elucidating the complex inter-relationship between Netherlandic and European literary history. The Low Countries were a dynamic site for new literary production and transnational exchange that shaped and reshaped the intellectual landscape of premodern Europe. Contributors include: Lia van Gemert, Lucas van der Deijl, Feike Dietz, Paul Wackers, David Napolitano, James A. Parente, Jr., Frank Willaert, Youri Desplenter, Bart Besamusca, Frans R.E. Blom, and Jan Bloemendal.
| Author | : Larissa Tracy |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2022-07-12 |
| Genre | : Dutch literature |
| ISBN | : 1843846349 |
This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.
| Author | : Mary Morse |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2024-05-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1501513907 |
In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.
