Scribes Of Space

Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501734069

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Scribes of Space by Matthew Boyd Goldie Pdf

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world. In tracing the causes and nature of these developments, and how geographical space was consequently understood, Goldie focuses on the intersection of medieval science, theology, and literature, deftly bringing a wide range of writings—scientific works by Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, the Merton School of Oxford Calculators, and Thomas Bradwardine; spiritual, poetic, and travel writings by John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Margery Kempe, the Mandeville author, and Geoffrey Chaucer—into conversation. This pairing of physics and literature uncovers how the understanding of spatial boundaries, locality, elevation, motion, and proximity shifted across time, signaling the emergence of a new spatial imagination during this era.

Author : William Allen Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802037348

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Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus by William Allen Johnson Pdf

Close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry- but also, in turn, suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice.

Author : Jane Alden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199700738

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Songs, Scribes, and Society by Jane Alden Pdf

A new kind of songbook emerged in the later fifteenth century: personalized, portable, and lavishly decorated. Five closely related chansonniers, copied in the Loire Valley region of central France c. 1465-c. 1475, are the earliest surviving examples of this new genre. The Loire Valley Chansonniers preserve the music of such renowned composers as Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Ockeghem, and Antoine Busnoys. But their importance as musical sources has overshadowed the significance of these manuscripts as artifacts in their own right. This book places the physical objects at center, investigating the means by which they were produced and the broader culture in which they circulated. Jane Alden performs a codicological autopsy upon the manuscripts and reveals the hitherto unrecognized role of scribes in shaping the transmission and reception of the chanson repertory. Alden also challenges the long-held belief that the Loire Valley Chansonniers were intended for royal or noble patrons. Instead, she argues that a rising class of bureaucrats--notaries, secretaries, and other court officials--commissioned these exquisite objects. Active as writers and participants in poetry competitions, these individuals may even have written some of the chansons' texts. The unique integration of image, text, and music found in chansonniers extends their appeal to a broad readership. But for the nineteenth-century scholars who rediscovered these manuscripts, the larger literary and visual resonances were not of primary interest. Alden documents the tangle of motivations--national identity, populist politics, and the rise of the musical masterwork--that informed the earliest writings on these books. Only now is their multifaceted structure the inspiration for a new generation of readers.

Author : Carol Newsom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047405153

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The Self as Symbolic Space by Carol Newsom Pdf

This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members. Drawing on discourse and practice theory, the book analyzes the function of the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodoyot in identity formation.

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567696168

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Scribes and Scribalism by Mark Leuchter Pdf

This volume is a concentrated examination of the varied roles of scribes and scribal practices in ancient Israel and Judah, shedding light on the social world of the Hebrew Bible. Divided into discussion of three key aspects, the book begins by assessing praxis and materiality, looking at the tools and materials used by scribes, where they came from and how they worked in specific contexts. The contributors then move to observe the power and status of scribal cultures, and how scribes functioned within their broader social world. Finally, the volume offers perspectives that examine ideological issues at play in both antiquity and the modern context(s) of biblical scholarship. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that no text is produced in a void, and no writer functions without a network of resources.

Author : Cynthia J. Cyrus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442692060

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The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany by Cynthia J. Cyrus Pdf

While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period. Drawing on extensive research into the surviving manuscripts of over 450 women's convents, the author assesses the genres common to women's convent libraries emphasizing a social rather than a codicological understanding of how manuscripts of women's libraries came to be copied. An engaging mix of biography, women's history, and book history, The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany will change the way medieval manuscripts are understood and studied.

Author : Mary-Jo Arn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780859915809

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Charles D'Orléans in England by Mary-Jo Arn Pdf

Studies of evidence of Charles d'Orleans as scholar, politician and poet during his 25 years of captivity in England

Author : Francis Newton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521583950

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The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino, 1058-1105 by Francis Newton Pdf

In all the history of hand-written books, one of the most distinctive and handsome scripts is that of the abbey of Monte Cassino. This study examines for the first time in detail the development of this script during the Abbey's greatest period of wealth and influence, under Desiderius (abbot 1058-1087) and his successor Oderisius (abbot 1087-1105). The characteristic Cassinese hand was established long before, but in this period it was transformed into what is today considered its classic form. The present study rests on a fresh examination of many details of the Beneventan (South Italian) script in aspects incompletely studied before. It aims to provide a new history of Monte Cassino as a writing centre and to offer a context for many unique or valuable texts manuscripts that it processed.

Author : Paul Saenger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080474016X

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Space Between Words by Paul Saenger Pdf

Silent reading is now universally accepted as normal; indeed reading aloud to oneself may be interpreted as showing a lack of ability or understanding. Yet reading aloud was usual, indeed unavoidable, throughout antiquity and most of the middle ages. Saenger investigates the origins of the gradual separation of words within a continuous written text and the consequent development of silent reading. He then explores the spread of these practices throughout western Europe, and the eventual domination of silent reading in the late medieval period. A detailed work with substantial notes and appendices for reference.

Author : M.B. Parkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351880060

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Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes by M.B. Parkes Pdf

This new book by Malcolm Parkes makes a fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.The purpose of this study is to focus on the writing of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The following five, based on the author's Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford, then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of some customized images produced by handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.

Author : Brandon Robertson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781304041340

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Zeus and RA Digital Space Bible Edition 4 Part 2 by Brandon Robertson Pdf

This is part 2 of part 1 of Zeus and Ra Space Bible. As the author I am pride to have given the human race a fighting chance against any future problems that Earth may face from outer space.

Author : Alan David Crown
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3161474902

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Samaritan Scribes and Manuscripts by Alan David Crown Pdf

This book aims to provide the critical tools to help scholars in their use of Samaritan manuscripts. The basic codicological tools is a series of complementary data-bases compiled from typological studies of the physical properties of manuscripts. Each typology is in effect a diachronic profile created by painstaking comparison and analysis of the physical properties of manuscripts of known provenance and/or date. Using these typologies or diachronic profiles it is possible to evaluate the chronology of the physical characteristics of any manuscript - the quire or gathering structure, ink, ruling, spacing of the text on the folio, sewing of the sections ... Naturally, the more information available about the physical properties of any manuscript the better the chance of making correlations between the typologies of different properties. The basic rule in palaeography and codicology is that the researcher works on an inductive basis from as wide a sample as possible of dated manuscripts. It is hoped that in the studies in this volume, evidence has been provided which will serve as a guide both to the appearance and the nature of Samaritan manuscripts and to the evaluative process that one would employ in examining them for codicological purposes. The reader should be able to apply the criteria provided here to the evaluation of whatever data can be retrieved from any undated Samaritan manuscripts with which he is confronted. Alan D. Crown in the preface

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769000471162

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Proceedings of the 13th Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology Conference (SPRAT 13) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alison I. Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521792436

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Women as Scribes by Alison I. Beach Pdf

Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. The author examines the exceptional quantity of evidence of female scribal activity in three different religious communities, pointing out the various ways in which the women worked - alone, with other women, and even alongside men - to produce books for monastic libraries, and discussing why their work should have been made visible, whereas that of other female scribes remains invisible. Beach's focus on manuscript production, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which shaped that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest not only to palaeographers but also to those interested in reading, literacy, religion and gender history.

Author : Edward D. Andrews
Publisher : Christian Publishing House
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798387004544

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THE SCRIBE AND THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT by Edward D. Andrews Pdf

THE SCRIBE AND THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT is a comprehensive exploration of the critical role played by scribes in the transmission of the New Testament text throughout history. This book provides a fascinating and informative overview of the evolution of scribal practices and their impact on the New Testament text, revealing how scribal tendencies have led to the creation of variant readings. The book delves into the significance of studying scribal activities in textual criticism, explaining how understanding scribal errors can help scholars determine the original text of the New Testament. The book provides examples of the most common types of scribal errors and offers strategies for identifying and correcting them. With clear and accessible language, the book explains the historical and cultural context of scribal practices in the New Testament era. It highlights the importance of recognizing the impact of scribal activities on the transmission of the New Testament text and its continuing relevance to contemporary scholarship. THE SCRIBE AND THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT is an essential resource for anyone interested in textual criticism, the history of the New Testament, or the cultural context of the ancient world. It is an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the New Testament and its transmission through history.