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Inscribing Knowledge in the Medieval Book

The Power of Paratexts
Buch | Hardcover
411 Seiten
2020
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-1788-4 (ISBN)

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This volume examines power and the paratext in
medieval books from intellectual disciplines such as history of the book, law, science, music, medicine, literature, art, and philosophy.
This collection of essays examines how the paratextual apparatus of medieval manuscripts both inscribes and expresses power relations between the producers and consumers of knowledge in this important period of intellectual history. It seeks to define which paratextual features – annotations, commentaries, corrections, glosses, images, prologues, rubrics, and titles – are common to manuscripts from different branches of medieval knowledge and how they function in any particular discipline. It reveals how these visual expressions of power that organize and compile thought on the written page are consciously applied, negotiated or resisted by authors, scribes, artists, patrons and readers. This collection, which brings together scholars from the history of the book, law, science, medicine, literature, art, philosophy and music, interrogates the role played by paratexts in establishing authority, constructing bodies of knowledge, promoting education, shaping reader response, and preserving or subverting tradition in medieval manuscript culture.

Rosalind Brown-Grant, University of Leeds, UK, Patrizia Carmassi, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Gisela Drossbach, Universität Augsburg, Germany, Anne D. Hedeman, University of Kansas, Lawrende, USA, Victoria Turner, University of St Andrews, UK, Iolanda Ventura, Université d'Orléans, France.

List of Figures

Editorial Principles

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction by the Editors




Part 1: Constructing Bodies of Knowledge

Juridical Late Medieval Paratexts and the Growth of European Jurisprudence by Mario Ascheri and Paola Maffei

Prefaces in Canon Law Books by Gisela Drossbach

"Depingo ut ostendam, depictum ita est expositio": Diagrams as an Indispensable Complement to the Cosmological Teaching of the Liber Nemroth de astronomia by Isabelle Draelants




Part 2: Negotiating Tradition, Creating Practice

From Text to Diagram: Giambattista Da Monte and the Practice of Medicine by Concetta Pennuto

Immortal Souls and an Angel Intellect: Some Thoughts on the Function and Meaning of Christian Iconography in Medieval Aristotle Textbooks by Hanna Wimmer

Writing in the Margin—Drawing in the Margin: Reading Practices of Medieval Jurists by Joanna Frońska

Structuring, Stressing, or Recasting Knowledge on the Page? Rubrication in the Manuscript Copies of the Pèlerinage de l’âme by Guillaume de Deguileville by Géraldine Veysseyre




Part 3: Adopting Tradition, Empowering Readers

From Troy to Aachen: Ancient Rome and the Carolingian Reception of Vergil by Sinéad O’Sullivan

Translating Prologues and Prologue Illustration in French Historical Texts by Anne D. Hedeman

Paratext and the Politics of Conquest: Questing Knights and Colonial Rule in Le Canarien by Victoria Turner

Prefaces and Frontispieces in Prose Romance Manuscripts by Rosalind Brown-Grant




Part 4: Appropriating Tradition, Expressing Ownership, Embodying the Book

Visualizing Pontifical Power: Paratextual Elements in Some French Liturgical Books, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries by Alison Stones

Paratext in the Manuscripts of Hartmann Schedel by Outi Merisalo

Book Material, Production, and Use from the Point of View of the Paratext by Patrizia Carmassi




List of Manuscripts and Early Printed Editions Cited

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 100 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 722 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Antiquitäten
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte Geistesgeschichte • Macht • mittelalterliche Manuskripte • Paratext
ISBN-10 1-5015-1788-0 / 1501517880
ISBN-13 978-1-5015-1788-4 / 9781501517884
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