Printing the Middle Ages

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201841
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Printing the Middle Ages by : Sian Echard

Download or read book Printing the Middle Ages written by Sian Echard and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.

Print Culture and the Medieval Author

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199262950
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Print Culture and the Medieval Author by : Alexandra Gillespie

Download or read book Print Culture and the Medieval Author written by Alexandra Gillespie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.

The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages

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Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503569482
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages by : Mariken Teeuwen

Download or read book The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages written by Mariken Teeuwen and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a 'white space' around the text is even laid out to contain extra text, pricked and ruled for the purpose. Just as footnotes are an approved and standard part of the modern academic book, so the flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces of many medieval manuscripts are an invitation to add extra text. This volume focuses on annotation in the early medieval period. In treating manuscripts as mirrors of the medieval minds who created them - reflecting their interests, their choices, their practices - the essays explore a number of key topics. Are there certain genres in which the making of annotations seems to be more appropriate or common than in others? Are there genres in which annotating is 'not done'? Are there certain monastic centres in which annotating practices flourish, and from which they spread? The volume thus investigates whether early medieval annotators used specific techniques, perhaps identifiable with their scribal communities or schools. It explores what annotators actually sought to accomplish with their annotations, and how the techniques of annotating developed over time and per region.

Brand Luther

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ISBN 13 : 1594204969
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Book Synopsis Brand Luther by : Andrew Pettegree

Download or read book Brand Luther written by Andrew Pettegree and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation's 500th anniversary When Martin Luther posted his "theses" on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe; within years, their author was not just famous, but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war. Luther came of age with the printing press, and the path to glory of neither one was obvious to the casual observer of the time. Printing was, and is, a risky business--the questions were how to know how much to print and how to get there before the competition. Pettegree illustrates Luther's great gifts not simply as a theologian, but as a communicator, indeed, as the world's first mass-media figure, its first brand. He recognized in printing the power of pamphlets, written in the colloquial German of everyday people, to win the battle of ideas. But that wasn't enough--not just words, but the medium itself was the message. Fatefully, Luther had a partner in the form of artist and businessman Lucas Cranach, who together with Wittenberg's printers created the distinctive look of Luther's pamphlets. Together, Luther and Cranach created a product that spread like wildfire--it was both incredibly successful and widely imitated. Soon Germany was overwhelmed by a blizzard of pamphlets, with Wittenberg at its heart; the Reformation itself would blaze on for more than a hundred years. Publishing in advance of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, Brand Luther fuses the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism--the literal marketplace of ideas--into one enthralling story, revolutionizing our understanding of one of the pivotal figures and eras in human history.

Architecture in the Age of Printing

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262534096
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Architecture in the Age of Printing by : Mario Carpo

Download or read book Architecture in the Age of Printing written by Mario Carpo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the influence of communication technologies on Western architectural theory. The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this body of knowledge has reflected the dominant information technologies of each period. In this book Mario Carpo discusses the communications media used by Western architects, from classical antiquity to modern classicism, showing how each medium related to specific forms of architectural thinking. Carpo highlights the significance of the invention of movable type and mechanically reproduced images. He argues that Renaissance architectural theory, particularly the system of the five architectural orders, was consciously developed in response to the formats and potential of the new printed media. Carpo contrasts architecture in the age of printing with what preceded it: Vitruvian theory and the manuscript format, oral transmission in the Middle Ages, and the fifteenth-century transition from script to print. He also suggests that the basic principles of "typographic" architecture thrived in the Western world as long as print remained our main information technology. The shift from printed to digital representations, he points out, will again alter the course of architecture.

The Middle Ages

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Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785785923
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis The Middle Ages by : Eleanor Janega

Download or read book The Middle Ages written by Eleanor Janega and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other' - women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics. Join historian Eleanor Janega and illustrator Neil Max Emmanuel on a romp across continents and kingdoms as we discover the Middle Ages to be a time of huge change, inquiry and development - not unlike our own.

Looking Back from the Invention of Printing

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Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503580838
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Looking Back from the Invention of Printing by : M. T. Clanchy

Download or read book Looking Back from the Invention of Printing written by M. T. Clanchy and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Clanchy's From Memory to Written Record, first published in 1979, has shaped the study of medieval literacy. Apart from continuing to work on 'pragmatic literacy', he has also turned his attention to other forms of making, keeping, and using written texts. This book collates six articles since published, showing new directions in the field of medieval literacy and communication. The first two chapters--'Looking Back from the Invention of Printing' and 'Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture, 1100-1500 AD'--provide an overview of further work on medieval manuscript culture. The next four--'Images of Ladies with Prayer Books: What Do They Signify?'; 'An Icon of Literacy: The Depiction at Tuse of Jesus Going to School'; 'The ABC Primer: Was it in Latin or English?'; 'Did Mothers Teach Their Children to Read?'--highlight a new interest in gender that has reviewed earlier ideas on literacy. Featuring 49 colour illustrations, the book also includes an Introduction, Bibliography, and Index.

Book Illumination in the Middle Ages

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ISBN 13 : 9781872501765
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Book Illumination in the Middle Ages by : Otto Pächt

Download or read book Book Illumination in the Middle Ages written by Otto Pächt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on lectures given at the University of Vienna, this book examines all types of book decoration and illumination between late Antiquity and the Renaissance from the point of view of format and style. Pacht explains the basic vocabulary and concepts by which this art-form is to be understood, and offers insights into the philosophy, theology, technology and culture underlying its history. His subjects include pictorial decoration in the organic structure of the book; the initial; bible illustration; didactic miniatures; illustration of the apocalypse; illustration of the psalter; the conflict of surface and space. Now available in paperback.

Turning Over a New Leaf

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Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789087281557
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Book Synopsis Turning Over a New Leaf by : Erik Kwakkel

Download or read book Turning Over a New Leaf written by Erik Kwakkel and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books before print -manuscripts- were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances under which handwritten books were produced, used and collected. An important theme is the relationship between the physical book and its users. Can we reflect on reading practices through an examination of the layout of a text? To what extent can we use the contents of libraries to understand the culture of the book? The volume explores such issues by focusing on a broad palette of texts and through a detailed analysis of manuscripts from all corners of Europe"--Publisher's description.

Painting the Page in the Age of Print

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Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888442086
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Painting the Page in the Age of Print by : Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Download or read book Painting the Page in the Age of Print written by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The history of the book in the fifteenth century is especially associated in German-speaking countries with Gutenberg's invention of printing with movable type. Over a century of scholarship has tended, often in rather gratuitous fashion, to dismiss the majority of illuminated manuscripts produced in central Europe between around 1400 and the Reformation as mediocre manifestations of a culture in decline. This book--originally published in German to accompany a series of exhibitions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 2015 to 2017--was written to challenge these prejudices and the weight of tradition which they represent. It contains four wide-ranging art historical essays which for the first time give an overview of fifteenth-century illumination in Central Europe."--

Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: 476-1600. pt.I. Books in manuscript. pt. II. The earlier printed books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: 476-1600. pt.I. Books in manuscript. pt. II. The earlier printed books by : George Haven Putnam

Download or read book Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: 476-1600. pt.I. Books in manuscript. pt. II. The earlier printed books written by George Haven Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the seventeenth century.

A History of the Middle Ages, 284-1500. (Second Printing.) [With Plates.].

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Total Pages : 497 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of the Middle Ages, 284-1500. (Second Printing.) [With Plates.]. by : Sidney PAINTER

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Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004289496
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing investigates Medieval and Early Renaissance reception of Terence in highly innovative ways by combining the diverse but interrelated strands of textual criticism, illustrative tradition and performance.

The Book Before Printing

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142493
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book Before Printing by : David Diringer

Download or read book The Book Before Printing written by David Diringer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkable work. . . . For sheer weight of information there is no equal to it." — The Spectator. It is probable that the earliest "books" were written on wood or leaves as early as the fourth millennium B.C. These fragile materials, unfortunately, have not come down to us. In their absence, the earliest surviving books are the clay tablets of Mesopotamia, the oldest attributed to c. 3500 B.C. On these ancient clay shards, dense rows of cuneiform script record the seminal writings of mankind: the Gilgamesh epic, Sumerian literary catalogues, Babylonian astrology, Assyrian accounts of the Creation and the Flood, and the Lipit-Ishtar Law-Code (c. 2000 B.C.), predating Hammurabi and the oldest law code in human history. Probably as ancient as the Mesopotamian writings, or nearly so, are Egyptian hieroglyphics. In a sense, it is the papyrus scrolls of the Egyptians — preserved by that country's hot, dry climate — that represent the true ancestors of the modern book. As the centuries passed, papyrus slowly gave way to parchment (the prepared skins of animals) as writing material. Indeed, the handwritten parchment or vellum codex is "the book" par excellence of the Middle Ages. Western European book production is only part of the story, and the author is at pains to illuminate the bibliographic contributions of numerous peoples and cultures: Greek and Roman book production, books made in central and southern Asia, the books of Africa, pre-Columbian America, and the Far East — material that is often not mentioned in Western histories of the book. Based on years of painstaking research and incorporating a wealth of new material and conclusions, the text is enhanced throughout by abundant illustrations — nearly 200 photographic facsimiles of priceless manuscripts in museums and libraries around the world.

Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages written by George Haven Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: 1500-1709: pt.II. (continued) pt.III. The beginnings of property in literature

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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages: 1500-1709: pt.II. (continued) pt.III. The beginnings of property in literature written by George Haven Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages

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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages written by George Haven Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: