Manuscript Albums And Their Cultural Contexts

Author : Janine Droese,Janina Karolewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783111321462

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Manuscript Albums and Their Cultural Contexts by Janine Droese,Janina Karolewski Pdf

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume's contributors - who come from musicology, European history, English literary studies, and Islamic art history - explore a set of these challenging manuscripts while addressing questions of manuscript studies through their respective disciplinary lenses. The albums under investigation range from Early Modern Stammbücher, or alba amicorum, to albums assembled jointly by nineteenth-century cultural elites, and from muraqqaʿs of the Persianate world to English and North American friendship albums, including some kept by women. This book is the first contribution to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their materiality and analysing the practices of all those involved in making and using them. Moreover, the collection introduces this hard-to-grasp type of written artefact to the field of cross-disciplinary manuscript studies and suggests albums as a touchstone for manuscriptological theories and terminologies.

Author : Janine Droese, Janina Karolewski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111321639

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Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts by Janine Droese, Janina Karolewski Pdf

Author : Valérie Kobi,Kristel Smentek,Chonja Lee
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110985085

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Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century by Valérie Kobi,Kristel Smentek,Chonja Lee Pdf

Das 18. Jahrhundert war das Zeitalter der Kunstkenner: in und zugleich Ära eines globalen Bewusstseins, das aus dem sich beschleunigenden Handel und imperialen Eroberungen hervorging. Diese Publikation bringt die Kennerschaft, die sich als empirische Methode der Kunstanalyse in Europa und Asien etablierte, in einen Dialog mit der zunehmenden Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen Formen des Kunstschaffens, die im Verlauf des langen 18. Jahrhunderts durch lokale und globale Netzwerke ermöglicht wurde. Die Autor: innen des Buches nehmen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Indien, Japan, China und Europa in den Blick und untersuchen, wie sich Begegnungen mit Kunstwerken aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt auf die Praxis der Kunstkennerschaft in Asien und Europa auswirkten. Praktiken und Netzwerke in Indien, Japan und Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts Komplexität und Asymmetrien der Kunstkennerschaft in einer expandierenden Welt

Author : Samantha Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599841

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Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture by Samantha Matthews Pdf

'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s 'albo-mania' come from, and why was it satirized as a women's 'mania'? What was the relation between visitors' books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums' re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a 'feminized' practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women's culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage differently with albums? What does album culture's privileging of 'original poetry' have to say about attitudes towards creativity and poetic practice in the age of print? This volume recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by Lake poets' daughters. As Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture shows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations in the Romantic period.

Author : Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110541397

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Manuscripts and Archives by Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz Pdf

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

Author : Chassica Kirchhoff
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781837650439

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The Thun-Hohenstein Album by Chassica Kirchhoff Pdf

The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it. In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a complex visual language. Luxury armour was fitted precisely to a wearer's body, and its memorable details declared his status. Empty armour could evoke an owner's physical presence, prompting recollection of knightly personae, glittering pageantry, and impressive feats of arms. Its mnemonic power persisted long after the battle had ended, the trumpets had gone silent, and the dust had settled in the tournament arena. Previously believed to contain preliminary designs sketched by master armourers, the Thun-Hohenstein album is a bound collection of drawings by professional book painters depicting some of the most artistically and technologically innovative armours of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Like a paper version of the princely armories that first formed during the 1500s, the album's images offered rich sites of meaning and memory. Their organization within the codex suggests the images' significance to their compiler. At the same time, the composition and details allow the reader to trace the transmission of recognizable armours, and the memories they embodied, from the anvil to the page. This book is the first to examine the album, and the armor it depicts, in their vibrant artistic and cultural context. In five thematic chapters, it moves from case studies of these drawings to explore the album's complex intersections with the genres of martial history, material culture, and literature. It also reveals the album's participation in cultures of remembrance that carried mythic, knightly personae constructed around powerful Habsburg princes forward in time from the Middle Ages into the early modern era, from the courts of the Holy Roman Empire to emerging urban audiences.

Author : Jörg Quenzer,Dmitry Bondarev,Jan-Ulrich Sobisch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110384826

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Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field by Jörg Quenzer,Dmitry Bondarev,Jan-Ulrich Sobisch Pdf

Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.

Author : Steven W. May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198878001

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture by Steven W. May Pdf

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.

Author : Vincenzo Vergiani,Daniele Cuneo,Camillo Alessio Formigatti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110543100

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Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages by Vincenzo Vergiani,Daniele Cuneo,Camillo Alessio Formigatti Pdf

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

Author : Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110541571

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Manuscripts and Archives by Alessandro Bausi,Christian Brockmann,Michael Friedrich,Sabine Kienitz Pdf

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004323483

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The Diez Albums by Anonim Pdf

The five Diez albums in Berlin are an important source for the study of Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid art. The 21 essays of this book contribute to deepening our understanding of the development of Persianate art and its perception in later times.

Author : Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107066199

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The Medieval Manuscript Book by Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen Pdf

This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.

Author : Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190611057

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Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language by Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette Pdf

"First Edition published in Paperback 2001."

Author : Phillip Pulsiano,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015041906622

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Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Their Heritage by Phillip Pulsiano,Elaine M. Treharne Pdf

The notable recent advances in the study and understanding of early medieval manuscripts have led to major reappraisals of the history of the language and society of the period. This volume brings together some of the best recent work on the period before and after the Conquest and makes an irresistible case for a number of fundamental revisions in our understanding of the culture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England.Combining the use of novel techniques such as digital image processing with the best current practice in textual and iconographic study, this volume broadens the scope and applicability of manuscript studies, showing, for example, the falsity of prevailing notions of the vitality and status of the native English tongue after the Conquest.The essays combine to make a coherent and persuasive demonstration of the benefits of not remaining bound to the physical artifact but rather connecting codicology with practical and theoretical applications within manuscript studies and other historical disciplines.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Archives
ISBN : IND:30000115765038

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Archives and Manuscripts by Anonim Pdf