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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其他作者: Cesario, Marilina (Editor), Magennis, Hugh (Editor)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Manchester : Manchester University Press [2018]
丛编:Manchester medieval literature and culture.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv18b5dm3
书本目录:
  • 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.