Late Medieval and Early Modern Libraries
Knowledge Repositories, Guardians of Tradition and Catalysts of Change
Edited by Outi Merisalo Edited by Natasa Golob Edited by Leonardo Magionami
Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries – knowledge, tradition and change.
Libraries are an important factor in preserving and transmitting knowledge, thus contributing to historical continuity. The very concept of simultaneous availability of different texts transmitting possibly contradictory ideas, however, implies a great potential for engaging readers in new ways of thinking, thus promoting change. In addition to transmitting texts, historical libraries would often also be perceived as objects of material and spiritual value enhancing the prestige of their owner, e.g. contributing to the image-building of the political entities ruled by emperors, kings and princes. While the history of individual libraries of the Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance have been treated in various detail, no large-scale study of the impact of Late Medieval and Early Modern libraries as knowledge repositories and guardians of tradition, on the one hand, and catalysts of change, on the other, seems to exist. This volume, which is inspired by the outcome of the final colloquium of the Lamemoli project held in Siena in March 2022, explores from the book historical point of view a series of both well-known and severely underexplored Late Medieval and Early Modern book collections in existence between c. 1250 and c. 1650, a period of intense mediatic, cultural, religious and political change in Western Europe. Covering an extensive geographical area from France and Italy to Central and Northern Europe, the collections are examined for both their material characteristics and contents, and their historical formation, in order to assess their roles in preserving and transmitting information as well as generating new ideas.
- Edited by Outi Merisalo
- Edited by Natasa Golob
- Edited by Leonardo Magionami
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Scribes and the Presentation of Texts (from Antiquity to c. 1550)
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Medieval Autograph Manuscripts
Proceedings of the XVIIth Colloquium of the Comite International de Paleographie Latine, held in Ljubljana, 7-10 September 2010
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The Rise of Vernacular Writing. The Palaeographical Perspective
Proceedings of the 21st Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. Firenze (1921 February 2020)
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Le gout de la bibliophilie nationale
La collection de livres rares et precieux des ducs d'Arenberg a Bruxelles, XIXe-XXe siecles
Volume 61
Un temoin de la production du livre universitaire dans la France du XIIIe siecle
la collection des Decretales de Gregoire IX
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Les folios introductifs de l’Antiphonaire de Leon (Archivo de la Catedral de Leon, ms. 8, fol. 1-27)
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The ‘Psychomachia’ Codex from St. Lawrence (Bruxellensis 10066-77) and the Schools of Liege in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Volume 42
The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon
Three Hundred Years of Study on Greek Handwriting: Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid-Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008)
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Strasbourg, ville de l’imprimerie
L'edition princeps aux XVe et XVIe siecles (textes et images)
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Jewish Book – Christian Book
Hebrew Manuscripts in Transition between Jews and Christians in the Context of German Humanism
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Sciences du quadrivium au Mont-Cassin
Regards croises sur le manuscrit Montecassino, Archivio dell'Abbazia 318
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‘Change’ in Medieval and Renaissance Scripts and Manuscripts
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