Books and materiality

Autor: Mattison, J. R., Gillespie, Alexandra, Radulescu, Raluca, Rikhardsdottir, Sif
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature, 39-56
STARTPAGE=39;ENDPAGE=56;TITLE=The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature ISBN: 9780429197390
Popis: This chapter considers medieval English books as objects embedded in European and global networks. From the pigments used to adorn pages to the people who made those pages, bookmaking connected England to the continent and the world. The chapter describes the movement of materials, methods, artisans, and books along international routes, and it examines the domestication of the foreign, as new elements and processes became familiar to English book producers and were incorporated into local traditions. The chapter pays particular attention to the influence on English books, bookmakers, and book collectors of their closest neighbours in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and especially France. We offer a new approach to the study of medieval English manuscripts and early printed books, in which the tension between the local and the global recasts the material text as a transnational object.
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