Bound Fast with Letters: Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts

Rouse, Richard H.

ISBN 10: 0268040338 / ISBN 13: 9780268040338

Editore: University of Notre Dame Press 2013-06, 2013

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• Titolo: Bound Fast with Letters: Medieval Writers, Readers, and Texts
• Editore: University of Notre Dame Press 2013-06
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0268040338
• ISBN 13: 9780268040338
• Rilegatura: PF
• Condizione: New

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Bound Fast with Letters

brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission and manuscript production. The eighteen essays collected here address medieval authors, craftsmen, book producers, and patrons of manuscripts from different epochs in the Middle Ages, extending from late antiquity to the early Renaissance, and ranging from North Africa to northern England. Their investigations reveal valuable information about the history of texts and their transmission, and their careful scrutiny of texts and of the physical manuscripts that convey them illuminate the societies that created, read, and preserved these objects. The book begins in Part I with articles on writers from the patristic era through the twelfth century who experimented with, and mastered, various physical forms of presenting ideas in writing. Part II contains essays on patronage and patrons, including Richard de Fournival, Jean de Brienne, Watriquet de Couvin, Pope Clement V, the Counts of Saint-Pol, and Christine de Pizan. Part III, on manuscript producers, discusses the questions, for whom? and by whom? were manuscripts made. The four essays in this section each reflect on a different part of the process of book-making. Throughout, Bound Fast with Letters

focuses on the close ties between the physical remains of literate culture—from the wax tablets of the patristic era to the vernacular literature of the wealthy laity of the late Middle Ages—and their social and economic context.

"The common denominator shared by all of these essays is the human dimension, constituting in some ways a people-oriented history of the book and the book trade. The collection emphasizes the experimental nature of book production, the communities of artisans of the book, and the practicalities of life in them, the movement of scribes and artists, and the expectations of patrons. All of the articles place manuscript production in historical, social, and cultural contexts."—Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Informazioni sull'autore

Richard H. Rouse is professor of history emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles.
 
Mary A. Rouse is former managing editor of Viator. They are coauthors of a number of books, including Manuscripts and Their Makers. Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris, 1200–1500 (Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000).