Ann Morrison Spinney
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195173048
- eISBN:
- 9780199872091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173048.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter examines the musical practices employed by Catholic missionaries among the Wabanaki peoples during the colonial period in what would become the northeastern United States and the ...
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This chapter examines the musical practices employed by Catholic missionaries among the Wabanaki peoples during the colonial period in what would become the northeastern United States and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Liturgy, ritual, and hymnody all contained musical styles and sacred genres that made it possible for priests to convert Native Americans, while at the same time Native Americans found ways to retain many distinguishing characteristics of their own religious experiences. The Thomas Kyrie Manuscript provides the central case study in the chapter. Hymn practices grew up around funeral practices. The chapter contributes substantially to understanding how sacred musical practices provided the basis for new practices of literacy and the transformation of Wabanaki society until the present.Less
This chapter examines the musical practices employed by Catholic missionaries among the Wabanaki peoples during the colonial period in what would become the northeastern United States and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Liturgy, ritual, and hymnody all contained musical styles and sacred genres that made it possible for priests to convert Native Americans, while at the same time Native Americans found ways to retain many distinguishing characteristics of their own religious experiences. The Thomas Kyrie Manuscript provides the central case study in the chapter. Hymn practices grew up around funeral practices. The chapter contributes substantially to understanding how sacred musical practices provided the basis for new practices of literacy and the transformation of Wabanaki society until the present.
Konrad Hirschler
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474408776
- eISBN:
- 9781474418812
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408776.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth ...
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The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation – the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus – and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.Less
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation – the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus – and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.
Natasha O'Hear
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590100
- eISBN:
- 9780191725678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590100.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the ...
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Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the tapestry's patron. Louis I of Anjou, in commissioning this huge tapestry is discussed as are its possible contemporary uses and parallel tapestries. Its iconographical influences and particularly the influence of the Burckhardt‐Wildt Apocalypse manuscript are also considered. The exegetical innovations of the tapestry with regard to its handling of the source‐text, and in particular its extensive visual focus on the John figure make up the second half of the chapter. The scale of the tapestry and the physicality of the viewing experience remain a focus throughout.Less
Chapter 2 presents and analyses the Angers Apocalypse Tapestry (c. l373–80) (hereafter Angers) as a large‐scale example of medieval visual exegesis of the Book of Revelation. The motivation of the tapestry's patron. Louis I of Anjou, in commissioning this huge tapestry is discussed as are its possible contemporary uses and parallel tapestries. Its iconographical influences and particularly the influence of the Burckhardt‐Wildt Apocalypse manuscript are also considered. The exegetical innovations of the tapestry with regard to its handling of the source‐text, and in particular its extensive visual focus on the John figure make up the second half of the chapter. The scale of the tapestry and the physicality of the viewing experience remain a focus throughout.
Peter Redford (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526104489
- eISBN:
- 9781526121127
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526104489.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled by William Parkhurst in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in its size – over six hundred items inscribed on nearly four hundred ...
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The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled by William Parkhurst in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in its size – over six hundred items inscribed on nearly four hundred folios – and its variety: poems and letters, essays and aphorisms, speeches, satires and sententiae, mostly in English but including Latin, Italian, French and Spanish. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English, including those that are translations from those of the fourth-century Roman patrician Q. Aurelius Symmachus, and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of the collection are described in detail, with lengthy notes on memorial transcription of verse and prose, and the clandestine interception of letters. The book makes available, in a readily searchable form, texts, annotations and commentary that will have an impact on a wide range of scholarship. It will not only act as a guide to one of the English Renaissance’s most prized miscellanies, but also be found useful in a wide range of studies, illuminating such diverse subjects as, for example, the circulation of verse, the correspondence of John Donne (particularly with Henry Wotton and Henry Goodere), the self-fashioning of English gentlemen after the classical Romans of their class, and the government’s paranoiac spying on its own citizens. Literary scholars and editors, and social historians, may here draw on a deep well of contemporary writing, not readily available hitherto.Less
The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled by William Parkhurst in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in its size – over six hundred items inscribed on nearly four hundred folios – and its variety: poems and letters, essays and aphorisms, speeches, satires and sententiae, mostly in English but including Latin, Italian, French and Spanish. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English, including those that are translations from those of the fourth-century Roman patrician Q. Aurelius Symmachus, and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of the collection are described in detail, with lengthy notes on memorial transcription of verse and prose, and the clandestine interception of letters. The book makes available, in a readily searchable form, texts, annotations and commentary that will have an impact on a wide range of scholarship. It will not only act as a guide to one of the English Renaissance’s most prized miscellanies, but also be found useful in a wide range of studies, illuminating such diverse subjects as, for example, the circulation of verse, the correspondence of John Donne (particularly with Henry Wotton and Henry Goodere), the self-fashioning of English gentlemen after the classical Romans of their class, and the government’s paranoiac spying on its own citizens. Literary scholars and editors, and social historians, may here draw on a deep well of contemporary writing, not readily available hitherto.
James Doelman
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719096440
- eISBN:
- 9781526115218
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096440.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman’s The Epigram in England: 1590-1640 is the first major study on the ...
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While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman’s The Epigram in England: 1590-1640 is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines awareness of the genre’s history and conventions with an historicist consideration of social, political and religious contexts. Tracing the oral, manuscript and print circulation of individual epigrams, the book demonstrates their central place in the period’s poetic culture. The epigram was known for brevity, sharpness, and an urbane tone, but its subject matter ranged widely; thus, this book gives close attention to such sub-genres as the political epigram, the religious epigram and the mock epitaph. In its survey the book also considers questions of libel, censorship and patronage associated with the genre. While due attention is paid to such canonical figures as Ben Jonson and Sir John Harington, who used this humble (and sometimes scandalous) genre in poetically and socially ambitious ways, the study also draws on a wide range of neglected epigrammatists such as Thomas Bastard, Thomas Freeman and “Henry Parrot”. More subject than author-oriented, epigrams often floated free, and this study gives full attention to the wealth of anonymous epigrams from the period. As epigram culture was not limited by language, the book also draws heavily upon Neo-Latin epigrams. In its breadth The Epigram in England serves as a foundational introduction to the genre for students, and through its detailed case studies it offers rich analysis for advanced scholars.Less
While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman’s The Epigram in England: 1590-1640 is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947. It combines awareness of the genre’s history and conventions with an historicist consideration of social, political and religious contexts. Tracing the oral, manuscript and print circulation of individual epigrams, the book demonstrates their central place in the period’s poetic culture. The epigram was known for brevity, sharpness, and an urbane tone, but its subject matter ranged widely; thus, this book gives close attention to such sub-genres as the political epigram, the religious epigram and the mock epitaph. In its survey the book also considers questions of libel, censorship and patronage associated with the genre. While due attention is paid to such canonical figures as Ben Jonson and Sir John Harington, who used this humble (and sometimes scandalous) genre in poetically and socially ambitious ways, the study also draws on a wide range of neglected epigrammatists such as Thomas Bastard, Thomas Freeman and “Henry Parrot”. More subject than author-oriented, epigrams often floated free, and this study gives full attention to the wealth of anonymous epigrams from the period. As epigram culture was not limited by language, the book also draws heavily upon Neo-Latin epigrams. In its breadth The Epigram in England serves as a foundational introduction to the genre for students, and through its detailed case studies it offers rich analysis for advanced scholars.
Helen Barr
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091490
- eISBN:
- 9781781707319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091490.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Chapter Seven discusses the composition of the cover image in relation to temporal circularity, mirror images and the phenomenology of left/right apprehension.
Chapter Seven discusses the composition of the cover image in relation to temporal circularity, mirror images and the phenomenology of left/right apprehension.
Alan Coates
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198207566
- eISBN:
- 9780191677724
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207566.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
At some time in or before 1792, a number of old books were found hidden away at Shinfield House, south of Reading, which was owned by the Earl of Fingall. The books were taken to nearby Woolhampton ...
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At some time in or before 1792, a number of old books were found hidden away at Shinfield House, south of Reading, which was owned by the Earl of Fingall. The books were taken to nearby Woolhampton House, another residence of Lord Fingall. Woolhampton Lodge, a small house on the estate, was rented by Lord Fingall to the Roman Catholic bishop of Portsmouth. When John Virtue became bishop of Portsmouth and went to the Lodge in 1884, he discovered amongst other books a volume of charters and other items. This volume was eventually acquired by the British Museum and is now known as the Fingall Cartulary, or Wollascot Manuscript. In addition to charters, lists of vestments, liturgical objects and relics, the Fingall Cartulary contains the earliest surviving list of the books of Reading Abbey and Leominster Priory. The importance that the monks attached to their books can be seen from the fact that the books were listed so prominently towards the beginning of the cartulary, following the list of relics.Less
At some time in or before 1792, a number of old books were found hidden away at Shinfield House, south of Reading, which was owned by the Earl of Fingall. The books were taken to nearby Woolhampton House, another residence of Lord Fingall. Woolhampton Lodge, a small house on the estate, was rented by Lord Fingall to the Roman Catholic bishop of Portsmouth. When John Virtue became bishop of Portsmouth and went to the Lodge in 1884, he discovered amongst other books a volume of charters and other items. This volume was eventually acquired by the British Museum and is now known as the Fingall Cartulary, or Wollascot Manuscript. In addition to charters, lists of vestments, liturgical objects and relics, the Fingall Cartulary contains the earliest surviving list of the books of Reading Abbey and Leominster Priory. The importance that the monks attached to their books can be seen from the fact that the books were listed so prominently towards the beginning of the cartulary, following the list of relics.
Blaine Greteman
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199698707
- eISBN:
- 9780191740756
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This essay uses Milton's extensive manuscript and print revisions of A Maske to demonstrate that his poetry was radicalizing before it was radical. A Maske exists within a network of collaborative ...
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This essay uses Milton's extensive manuscript and print revisions of A Maske to demonstrate that his poetry was radicalizing before it was radical. A Maske exists within a network of collaborative relationships at the same time that its author constructs an image of himself as a singular, inspired author—not autonomous because inspired by God, nor dependent on the assistance and approval of others. This is key to Milton's ethical proof, the struggle for a singular voice within a larger framework. In the revisions to A Maske we see that struggle play out.Less
This essay uses Milton's extensive manuscript and print revisions of A Maske to demonstrate that his poetry was radicalizing before it was radical. A Maske exists within a network of collaborative relationships at the same time that its author constructs an image of himself as a singular, inspired author—not autonomous because inspired by God, nor dependent on the assistance and approval of others. This is key to Milton's ethical proof, the struggle for a singular voice within a larger framework. In the revisions to A Maske we see that struggle play out.
Michael Johnston
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199679782
- eISBN:
- 9780191759093
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679782.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, Folk Literature
This chapter examines the provenance and production of manuscripts containing gentry romances, arguing that both the intended and actual audience of these texts was the same: late medieval England’s ...
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This chapter examines the provenance and production of manuscripts containing gentry romances, arguing that both the intended and actual audience of these texts was the same: late medieval England’s minor landowners. The author identifies two bodies of evidence signaling that non-commercial scribes produced these collections of romances—almost always working in the vicinity of their gentry owners, quite often in their households. First, the confluence of scribal dialect and provenance demonstrates that the scribes of the romances hailed from the immediate vicinity of the romances’ earliest owners, suggesting that the gentry commissioned such books from scribes who lived and worked near them. Second, the irregular and ad-hoc nature of these manuscripts similarly indicates that non-commercial scribes were responsible for their production.Less
This chapter examines the provenance and production of manuscripts containing gentry romances, arguing that both the intended and actual audience of these texts was the same: late medieval England’s minor landowners. The author identifies two bodies of evidence signaling that non-commercial scribes produced these collections of romances—almost always working in the vicinity of their gentry owners, quite often in their households. First, the confluence of scribal dialect and provenance demonstrates that the scribes of the romances hailed from the immediate vicinity of the romances’ earliest owners, suggesting that the gentry commissioned such books from scribes who lived and worked near them. Second, the irregular and ad-hoc nature of these manuscripts similarly indicates that non-commercial scribes were responsible for their production.
Lewis Lockwood
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195378276
- eISBN:
- 9780199852376
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378276.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter suggests that the music assembled in Manuscript Mod B was accumulated primarily from sources outside Ferrara, not written there, nor written specifically for Leonello’s chapel. The ...
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This chapter suggests that the music assembled in Manuscript Mod B was accumulated primarily from sources outside Ferrara, not written there, nor written specifically for Leonello’s chapel. The accumulation of so much polyphonic material probably took place over a substantial period, no doubt extending well back into the 1430s, and was undoubtedly stimulated by the active intermingling of ecclesiastical patrons during the Council year of 1438. It shows that Leonello’s musicians were collecting and performing works well marked by those features of full sonority and fauxbourdon that were spreading to many centers of polyphonic practice. These represent some of the strongest and most progressive features of current polyphonic style then being brought to maturity by Dunstable, and his lesser English compatriots, and by Dufay, Binchois, and their Franco–Flemish followers.Less
This chapter suggests that the music assembled in Manuscript Mod B was accumulated primarily from sources outside Ferrara, not written there, nor written specifically for Leonello’s chapel. The accumulation of so much polyphonic material probably took place over a substantial period, no doubt extending well back into the 1430s, and was undoubtedly stimulated by the active intermingling of ecclesiastical patrons during the Council year of 1438. It shows that Leonello’s musicians were collecting and performing works well marked by those features of full sonority and fauxbourdon that were spreading to many centers of polyphonic practice. These represent some of the strongest and most progressive features of current polyphonic style then being brought to maturity by Dunstable, and his lesser English compatriots, and by Dufay, Binchois, and their Franco–Flemish followers.
Edward Allen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474411554
- eISBN:
- 9781474459723
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411554.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live… Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation ...
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Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live… Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to ‘read’ such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to war films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas’s formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to the many kinds of media that constitute literary modernism.Less
Reclining quietly with a book; an ear glued to the Hi-Fi; sifting a library stack; the TV flickering; a website gone live… Few poets have inspired such remarkable scenes and modes of interpretation as Dylan Thomas. Our means of access and response to his work have never been more eclectic, and this collection sheds new light on what it means to ‘read’ such a various art. In thinking beyond the parameters of life writing and lingering interpretative communities, Reading Dylan Thomas attends in detail to the problems and pleasures of deciphering Thomas in the twenty-first century, teasing out his debts and effects, tracing his influence on later artists, and suggesting ways to understand his own idiosyncratic reading practices. From short stories to memoirs, poems to broadcasts, letters to war films, manuscripts to paintings, the material considered in this volume lays the ground for a new consideration of Thomas’s formal versatility, and his distinctive relation to the many kinds of media that constitute literary modernism.
Michael Hochberg
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- August 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198804789
- eISBN:
- 9780191843051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198804789.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Biomathematics / Statistics and Data Analysis / Complexity Studies
The roles of editors, reviewers and authors in the publication process are loosely analogous to a court of law. Authors bring their case in the form of a manuscript to the journal (the court) for ...
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The roles of editors, reviewers and authors in the publication process are loosely analogous to a court of law. Authors bring their case in the form of a manuscript to the journal (the court) for publication consideration. They present arguments in the cover letter for why the journal should take a positive view on publication. The chief editor functions as the judge, examining evidence provided by the authors and critiques/recommendations by external reviewers (the jury) and syntheses/recommendations by a member of the editorial board (trial counsel). A crucial step in the publication decision is the approbation from the reviewers. This chapter discusses these analogies and the importance of writing a manuscript with reviewers in mind.Less
The roles of editors, reviewers and authors in the publication process are loosely analogous to a court of law. Authors bring their case in the form of a manuscript to the journal (the court) for publication consideration. They present arguments in the cover letter for why the journal should take a positive view on publication. The chief editor functions as the judge, examining evidence provided by the authors and critiques/recommendations by external reviewers (the jury) and syntheses/recommendations by a member of the editorial board (trial counsel). A crucial step in the publication decision is the approbation from the reviewers. This chapter discusses these analogies and the importance of writing a manuscript with reviewers in mind.
Stephen J. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300149456
- eISBN:
- 9780300206609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300149456.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
The epilogue to the book relates the textual infancy traditions to the artistic representation of a young Jesus in medieval contexts ranging from manuscript illumination to paintings in churches, ...
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The epilogue to the book relates the textual infancy traditions to the artistic representation of a young Jesus in medieval contexts ranging from manuscript illumination to paintings in churches, which also functioned as “sites of memory” for viewers. In both textual and visual settings, the Christ child was constantly reshaped and refigured for new eyes.Less
The epilogue to the book relates the textual infancy traditions to the artistic representation of a young Jesus in medieval contexts ranging from manuscript illumination to paintings in churches, which also functioned as “sites of memory” for viewers. In both textual and visual settings, the Christ child was constantly reshaped and refigured for new eyes.
Michael D. J. Bintley
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199680795
- eISBN:
- 9780191760839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199680795.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
In this paper, the ‘Ancestors of Christ panel’ of the southern Sandbach cross, each of whose figures is shown bearing some form of staff or rod, centres a discussion of how the Anglo-Saxons were ...
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In this paper, the ‘Ancestors of Christ panel’ of the southern Sandbach cross, each of whose figures is shown bearing some form of staff or rod, centres a discussion of how the Anglo-Saxons were encouraged to contemplate the role of such emblems in their own spiritual history. This theme may have been important in the compilation of the Junius Manuscript, where they serve as prefigurations of the cross. A similar idea may have lain behind Bede’s presentation of rods and pillars borne by two Anglian kings in the seventh century which prefigured Oswald’s cross at the battle of Heavenfield and the conversion of Northumbria. Ultimately, this paper argues that Anglo-Saxon Christians came to consider the trees, pillars, and rods of their heathen forebears in much the same light as the trees, pillars, and rods of the Judaeo-Christian tradition: as predecessors to the cross of Christ and the redemption of mankind.Less
In this paper, the ‘Ancestors of Christ panel’ of the southern Sandbach cross, each of whose figures is shown bearing some form of staff or rod, centres a discussion of how the Anglo-Saxons were encouraged to contemplate the role of such emblems in their own spiritual history. This theme may have been important in the compilation of the Junius Manuscript, where they serve as prefigurations of the cross. A similar idea may have lain behind Bede’s presentation of rods and pillars borne by two Anglian kings in the seventh century which prefigured Oswald’s cross at the battle of Heavenfield and the conversion of Northumbria. Ultimately, this paper argues that Anglo-Saxon Christians came to consider the trees, pillars, and rods of their heathen forebears in much the same light as the trees, pillars, and rods of the Judaeo-Christian tradition: as predecessors to the cross of Christ and the redemption of mankind.
David Watt
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780859898690
- eISBN:
- 9781781385203
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780859898690.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Thomas Hoccleve's Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book ...
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Thomas Hoccleve's Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book production in the fifteenth century. Focusing on four surviving manuscripts made by Hoccleve himself between 1422 and 1426, the first four chapters explore the making of the Series in context. They examine the importance of audience judgment in the selection and juxtaposition of forms, the extent to which the physical flexibility of books could serve the needs of their owners and their makers, the changing tastes of fifteenth-century readers, and the appetite for new paradigms for reform in head and members. The final chapter analyzes the most important non-authorial copy of the Series in order to ask what others made of it. While this study draws on Hoccleve's experience, it asserts that the Series offers a reflection on, not a reflection of, his conception of book production. The ironic contrast between what Thomas, Hoccleve's narrator, intends and accomplishes when making his book is its most redeeming feature, for it provides insight into the many conflicting pressures that shaped the way books were made and imagined in early fifteenth-century England.Less
Thomas Hoccleve's Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book production in the fifteenth century. Focusing on four surviving manuscripts made by Hoccleve himself between 1422 and 1426, the first four chapters explore the making of the Series in context. They examine the importance of audience judgment in the selection and juxtaposition of forms, the extent to which the physical flexibility of books could serve the needs of their owners and their makers, the changing tastes of fifteenth-century readers, and the appetite for new paradigms for reform in head and members. The final chapter analyzes the most important non-authorial copy of the Series in order to ask what others made of it. While this study draws on Hoccleve's experience, it asserts that the Series offers a reflection on, not a reflection of, his conception of book production. The ironic contrast between what Thomas, Hoccleve's narrator, intends and accomplishes when making his book is its most redeeming feature, for it provides insight into the many conflicting pressures that shaped the way books were made and imagined in early fifteenth-century England.
Helen Barr
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091490
- eISBN:
- 9781781707319
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091490.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Chapter 3 explores how hands in the written text of The Canterbury Tales reproduce the conflicted role of hands in medieval thought. When those hands come to be illustrated, they disrupt linear ...
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Chapter 3 explores how hands in the written text of The Canterbury Tales reproduce the conflicted role of hands in medieval thought. When those hands come to be illustrated, they disrupt linear literary narrative and principles of manuscript ordination. Readers who come to illustrated copies of The Canterbury Tales are brought face to face with bodies that may tell anticipated memories of textual hands they have encountered elsewhere. Their recall and their expectation replays text and image back and forth across the visual and verbal texts of the Canterbury Tales and other places besides. The temporal movement of Chaucer’s ‘own’ hands is especially complex. Through discussion of gesture, manicules, and codicology, the chapter dismantles Chaucer’s iconic left hand from its customary placement.Less
Chapter 3 explores how hands in the written text of The Canterbury Tales reproduce the conflicted role of hands in medieval thought. When those hands come to be illustrated, they disrupt linear literary narrative and principles of manuscript ordination. Readers who come to illustrated copies of The Canterbury Tales are brought face to face with bodies that may tell anticipated memories of textual hands they have encountered elsewhere. Their recall and their expectation replays text and image back and forth across the visual and verbal texts of the Canterbury Tales and other places besides. The temporal movement of Chaucer’s ‘own’ hands is especially complex. Through discussion of gesture, manicules, and codicology, the chapter dismantles Chaucer’s iconic left hand from its customary placement.
Peter Redford (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526104489
- eISBN:
- 9781526121127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526104489.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Drawing on the work of Woudhuysen, Love, Marotti and others, shows how and why manuscripts, and their care, copying and collection, were so important to Renaissance culture. Illustrates these matters ...
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Drawing on the work of Woudhuysen, Love, Marotti and others, shows how and why manuscripts, and their care, copying and collection, were so important to Renaissance culture. Illustrates these matters with quotations and anecdotes from writers of Burley’s period. Distinguishes this manuscript collection from other miscellanies by its size and variety. Proposes in later chapters to bring to light its vastness, complexity and undiscovered riches, and to show how its study may reward students of literature and social history.Less
Drawing on the work of Woudhuysen, Love, Marotti and others, shows how and why manuscripts, and their care, copying and collection, were so important to Renaissance culture. Illustrates these matters with quotations and anecdotes from writers of Burley’s period. Distinguishes this manuscript collection from other miscellanies by its size and variety. Proposes in later chapters to bring to light its vastness, complexity and undiscovered riches, and to show how its study may reward students of literature and social history.
Peter Redford (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781526104489
- eISBN:
- 9781526121127
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526104489.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Each item in the manuscript in turn is identified by folio number (r or v), and then either transcribed in full (English verse and private letters, including translations of the Symmachus letters) or ...
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Each item in the manuscript in turn is identified by folio number (r or v), and then either transcribed in full (English verse and private letters, including translations of the Symmachus letters) or by an incipit (all other items, including foreign-language ones). Other information about the item, including scribal hand, authorship, addressee (for letters), and date is also provided. Blank pages are so identified, and discrepancies or errors in assembly or binding noted. Conjectural transcriptions or attributions are so identified. If there is a commentary on the item, a note is given of where in chapters 9 and 10 it may be found.Less
Each item in the manuscript in turn is identified by folio number (r or v), and then either transcribed in full (English verse and private letters, including translations of the Symmachus letters) or by an incipit (all other items, including foreign-language ones). Other information about the item, including scribal hand, authorship, addressee (for letters), and date is also provided. Blank pages are so identified, and discrepancies or errors in assembly or binding noted. Conjectural transcriptions or attributions are so identified. If there is a commentary on the item, a note is given of where in chapters 9 and 10 it may be found.
Mark Mcmorris
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823243242
- eISBN:
- 9780823243280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823243242.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
As an acknowledgment of Penn Szittya's affection and support for the Lannan Center, its founder and former director (2006-2009) Mark McMorris has written a verbal portrait of Penn. The inclusion of a ...
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As an acknowledgment of Penn Szittya's affection and support for the Lannan Center, its founder and former director (2006-2009) Mark McMorris has written a verbal portrait of Penn. The inclusion of a contribution by a distinguished poet and scholar of contemporary poetry and poetics honors Penn's belief in promoting the social value of all poetic culture, whether medieval or modern. Building on Penn's examination of the Omne bonum manuscript, as described in Cruz's essay, McMorris draws inspiration from Penn's thesis about the text as “conceptual palimpsest” to find a structure for describing both Penn's life and the relationship between poetics and social practice. McMorris's own consideration of this manuscript and its scribe also allows him to develop the interactions between writing and drawing, reading and seeing, text and universe.Less
As an acknowledgment of Penn Szittya's affection and support for the Lannan Center, its founder and former director (2006-2009) Mark McMorris has written a verbal portrait of Penn. The inclusion of a contribution by a distinguished poet and scholar of contemporary poetry and poetics honors Penn's belief in promoting the social value of all poetic culture, whether medieval or modern. Building on Penn's examination of the Omne bonum manuscript, as described in Cruz's essay, McMorris draws inspiration from Penn's thesis about the text as “conceptual palimpsest” to find a structure for describing both Penn's life and the relationship between poetics and social practice. McMorris's own consideration of this manuscript and its scribe also allows him to develop the interactions between writing and drawing, reading and seeing, text and universe.
Michael Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520275249
- eISBN:
- 9780520954823
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520275249.003.0014
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
Henry James observed that for any writer “there is the story of one's hero, and then, thanks to the intimate connection of things, the story of one's story itself.” It is possible to understand ...
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Henry James observed that for any writer “there is the story of one's hero, and then, thanks to the intimate connection of things, the story of one's story itself.” It is possible to understand James's observation in two ways.First, no matter how remote from biographical truth a story seems to be, it is inevitably tied, obliquely and mysteriously, to the circumstances of its author's life.Second, just as every story implicates other stories, so the subject of every story implicates other subjects.Less
Henry James observed that for any writer “there is the story of one's hero, and then, thanks to the intimate connection of things, the story of one's story itself.” It is possible to understand James's observation in two ways.First, no matter how remote from biographical truth a story seems to be, it is inevitably tied, obliquely and mysteriously, to the circumstances of its author's life.Second, just as every story implicates other stories, so the subject of every story implicates other subjects.
