Aspects of knowledge : preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages /
This book investigates the role of 'texts' - including books, maps, stones and caskets - in the conveyance and transformation of knowledge and ideas throughout the Middle Ages. It contains original contributions by leading medievalists, who explore the topic from different yet complementar...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
[2018]
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| Col·lecció: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5dm3 |
Taula de continguts:
- Part I. Anthologies of knowledge. 1. Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission / László Sándor Chardonnens
- 2. Knowledge of the weather in the Middle Ages: Libellus de disposicione totius anni futuri / Marilina Cesario
- 3. The Cambridge songs as anthology of musical knowledge / Ann Buckley
- Part II. Transmission of Christian traditions. 4. Cristes leorningcnihtas: traditions of the apostles in Old English literature / Hugh Magennis
- 5. Seeing Jerusalem: schematic views of the Holy City, 1100-1300 / Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Asa Simon Mittman
- 6 The emergence of devotion to the name of Jesus in the West / Denis Renevey
- 7. 'Ther are bokes ynowe': texts and the ambiguities of knowledge in Piers Plowman / Kath Stevenson
- Part III. Past and present. 8. Meet the pagans: on the misuse of Beowulf in Andreas / Richard North
- 9. Reading and writing St Margaret of Scotland from Turgot's Vita to the Blackadder Prayerbook / Emily Wingfield
- Part IV. Knowledge and materiality. 10. The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified 'book' / Michelle P. Brown
- 11. Mise en page: the dimension and layout of books containing Old English / Donald G. Scragg.