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Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107076228
An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426275
Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.
Author : Renée Raphael
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421421780
How did early modern scientists interpret Galileo’s influential Two New Sciences? In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the foundations of mechanical engineering and physics, this book is often depicted as the definitive expression of Galileo’s purportedly modern scientific agenda. In Reading Galileo, Renée Raphael offers a new interpretation of Two New Sciences which argues instead that the work embodied no such coherent canonical vision. Raphael alleges that it was written—and originally read—as the eclectic product of the types of discursive textual analysis and meandering descriptive practices Galileo professed to reject in favor of more qualitative scholarship. Focusing on annotations period readers left in the margins of extant copies and on the notes and teaching materials of seventeenth-century university professors whose lessons were influenced by Galileo’s text, Raphael explores the ways in which a range of early-modern readers, from ordinary natural philosophers to well-known savants, responded to Galileo. She highlights the contrast between the practices of Galileo’s actual readers, who followed more traditional, “bookish” scholarly methods, and their image, constructed by Galileo and later historians, as “modern” mathematical experimenters. Two New Sciences has not previously been the subject of such rigorous attention and analysis. Reading Galileo considerably changes our understanding of Galileo’s important work while offering a well-executed case study in the reception of an early-modern scientific classic. This important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians—of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history.
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100588
Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.
Author : Simon Horobin,Linne R. Mooney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781903153536
Chaucer, Gower and Langland -- Lyrics and romances -- Devotional writings -- Owners and users of medieval books -- A tribute to Professor Takamiya
Author : Matthew W. Irvin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843399
Gower's use of the persona, the figure of the writer implicated in the text, is the main theme of this book. While it traces the development of Gower's voice through his major works, it concentrates on the dialogue of Amans and Genius in the Confessio Amantis. It argues that Gower negotiates problems of politics and problems of love by means of an analogy between political ethics and the rules of fin amour; Amans and Genius are both drawn from and occupied with amatory and ethical traditions, and their discourse produces a series of attempts to find a coherent and rational union of lover and ruler. The volume also argues that Gower's goal is poetic as well as political: through the personae, Gower's readers experience the pains and pleasures of erotic and social love. Gower's personae voice potential responses to exemplary experience, prompting readers to feel and to judge, and moving them to become better lovers and better rulers. Gower's analogy between fin amour and politics brings the affects of the lover to the action of government, and suggests for both love and rule the moderation that brings peace and joy. Matthew W. Irvin is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Chair of the Medieval Studies Program at Sewanee.
Author : Geoffrey Roper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351888288
This selection of papers by scholarly specialists offers an introduction to the history of the book and book culture in West Asia and North Africa from antiquity to the 20th century. The flourishing and long-lived manuscript tradition is discussed in its various aspects - social and economic as well as technical and aesthetic. The very early but abortive introduction of printing - long before Gutenberg - and the eventual, belated acceptance of the printed book and the development of print culture are explored in further groups of papers. Cultural, aesthetic, technological, religious, social, political and economic factors are all considered throughout the volume. Although the articles reflect the predominance in the area of Muslim books - Arabic, Persian and Turkish - the Hebrew, Syriac and Armenian contributions are also discussed. The editor’s introduction provides a survey of the field from the origins of writing to the modern literary and intellectual revivals.
Author : Matti Peikola,Aleksi Mäkilähde,Hanna Salmi,Mari-Liisa Varila,Janne Skaffari
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Book design
ISBN : 2503574645
The chapters in this volume investigate how visual and material features of early English books, documents, and other artefacts support - or potentially contradict - the linguistic features in communicating the message. In addition to investigating how such communication varies between different media and genres, our contributors propose novel methods for analysing these features, including new digital applications. They map the use of visual and material features - such as layout design or choice of script/typeface - against linguistic features - such as code-switching, lexical variation, or textual labels - to consider how these choices reflect the communicative purposes of the text, for example guiding readers to navigate the text in a certain way.
Author : John Z Wee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004417533
Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook, whose atypical language and ideas were harmonized with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body.
Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481472
A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
Author : Tim Gillespie
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571108425
One of the greatest challenges for English language arts teachers today is the call to engage students in more complex texts. Tim Gillespie, who has taught in public schools for almost four decades, has found the lenses of literary criticism a powerful tool for helping students tackle challenging literary texts. Tim breaks down the dense language of critical theory into clear, lively, and thorough explanations of many schools of critical thought---reader response, biographical, historical, psychological, archetypal, genre based, moral, philosophical, feminist, political, formalist, and postmodern. Doing Literary Criticism gives each theory its own chapter with a brief, teacher-friendly overview and a history of the approach, along with an in-depth discussion of its benefits and limitations. Each chapter also includes ideas for classroom practices and activities. Using stories from his own English classes--from alternative programs to advance placement and everything in between--Tim provides a wealth of specific classroom-tested suggestions for discussion, essay and research paper topics, recommended texts, exam questions, and more. The accompanying CD offers abbreviated overviews of each theory (designed to be used as classroom handouts, examples of student work, collections of quotes to stimulate discussion and writing, an extended history of women writers, and much more. Ultimately, Doing Literary Criticism offers teachers a rich set of materials and tools to help their students become more confident and able readers, writers, and critical thinkers.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674237179
The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book—the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy—he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries. Inky Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and print. Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas—that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.
Author : Susan Rankin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108421409
This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.
Author : Steve Vinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004353107
In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. "First Setne" is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional compositions from any period of ancient Egypt. The tale, which is by turns lurid, tragic and ultimately comic, deals with Setne's theft of a magic book written by the god Thoth himself, and subsequently Setne's punishment through a hallucinatory encounter with the ghostly femme fatale Tabubue. Vinson provides a new textual edition and commentary, and explores the tale's cultural background, its modern reception, and approaches to its interpretation as a work of literature.
Author : James K. Aitken,James Carleton Paget
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107001633
This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society's development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.
