Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West

Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West
Author: Eltjo Buringh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004175199

Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.

A Companion to the History of Science

A Companion to the History of Science
Author: Bernard Lightman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1118620747

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field

Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings

Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings
Author: Anne Hudson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000948293

Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries. Some of those ideas were transmitted orally through Wyclif's university teaching in Oxford, and in his preaching in London and Lutterworth, but the main medium through which his message was disseminated was the written word, using the universal western language of Latin. The papers in this collection look at aspects of that dissemination, from the organization and revision of Wyclif's works to form a summa of his ideas, the techniques devised to identify and make accessible his multifarious writings, the attempts of the orthodox clerical establishment to destroy them, through to the fortunes of his texts in the Reformation period; manuscripts written in England and those copied abroad, mostly in Bohemia, are considered. Although most of the papers have been published previously, a new edition of the important Hussite catalogue of Wyclif's writings is provided, and three lengthy sections contribute new material and additions and corrections to previous listings of Wyclif manuscripts.

Power and Propaganda

Power and Propaganda
Author: Katie Stevenson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 074869420X

A fresh introductory study of late medieval Scotland. Includes: expert assessment of the period arranged in thematic chapters; fresh insights into the period that draw on a wide range of sources; extensive further reading lists.

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Author: Joshua Byron Smith
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0812249321

Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.

Bury St. Edmunds

Bury St. Edmunds
Author: Antonia Gransden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351572881

This book focuses on art, palaeography, bindings and the monastic library. It is based on lectures given at the Association's Annual Conference, the 20th in the present series, which was held at Bury St Edmunds, from 16 to 20 April 1994: three specially commissioned articles are also included.

England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance

England and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Author: Rodney M. Thomson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2024-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040244262

Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special attention is given to the Latin classics, to the literary culture of the larger Benedictine houses, to the phenomenal quantity of Latin satirical writing of the period, and to the dissemination and reception of texts and ideas over time. While the geographical focus is England, the relationship of English materials and developments to the wider European context is constantly emphasized.

The Murthly Hours

The Murthly Hours
Author: John Higgitt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802047595

Accompanying CD-ROM contains digital facsimile of the Murthly Hours with commentary.